Lexical Summary achyron: chaff Original Word: ἄχυρονTransliteration: achyron Phonetic Spelling: (akh'-oo-ron) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: chaff Meaning: chaff Strong's Concordance chaff. Perhaps remotely from cheo (to shed forth); chaff (as diffusive) -- chaff. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 892: ἄχυρονἄχυρον, ἀχύρου, τό, "a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out; straw broken up by a threshing-machine, chaff": Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17. (In Greek writings from Herodotus 4, 72; Xenophon, oec. 18. 1, 2, 6 down; mostly in plural τά ἄχυρα; in Job 21:18 the Sept. also of the chaff accustomed to being driven away by the wind.) |
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