Chaff
חֲשַׁשׁStrong’s H2842chashash (cha-shash)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashash is the Hebrew word usually translated “dry grass”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.”
Meaning
- Chaff, dry grass
How it's translated
- and dry grass 1
- dry grass 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲשַׁשׁ chashash · chaff
chaff, dry grass
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chaff” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHAFF, noun
- The husk, or dry calyx of corn, and grasses.
- Refuse; worthless matter; especially that which is light, and apt to be driven by the wind. Psalms 1:4Jeremiah 23:28Isaiah 33:11Matthew 3:12
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.