Chaff
מוֹץStrong’s H4671mots
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mots is the Hebrew word usually translated “like chaff”, “like the chaff” and “like chaff of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
Meaning
- Chaffalways as driven by wind
How it's translated
- like chaff 4
- and like chaff 2
- like the chaff 1
- like chaff of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Job 1
- Hosea 1
- Zephaniah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
- Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹץ mots · chaff
1) chaff 1a) always as driven by wind
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.