Chaff
עוּרStrong’s H5784ur
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ur is the Aramaic word usually translated “like chaff”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
Meaning
- Chaff
How it's translated
- like chaff 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
עוּר ur · chaff
chaff
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.