H4671 - מֹץ (môts)

H4671 מֹץ (môts) motes

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

chaff

Strong's Definition

chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)

Derivation: or מוֹץ; (Zephaniah 2:2), from H4160 (מוּץ);

KJV Usage: chaff.

TWOT Reference: 1162a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) chaff

1a) always as driven by wind

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G892 G2868 G5529

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) chaff 1a) always as driven by wind

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מוֹץ / מֹץ môts BDB Definition: 1) chaff 1a) always as driven by wind Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H4160 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1162a Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (8)

21:18

1:4 35:5

17:13 29:5 41:15

13:3

2:2

Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 29:5

But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless... like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 41:15

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new [and] sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

Zephaniah 2:2

before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before... the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before... the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.