892. achuron
Strong's Concordance
achuron: chaff
Original Word: ἄχυρον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: achuron
Phonetic Spelling: (akh'-oo-ron)
Short Definition: chaff
Definition: chaff.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 892: ἄχυρον

ἄχυρον, 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.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
chaff.

Perhaps remotely from cheo (to shed forth); chaff (as diffusive) -- chaff.

Forms and Transliterations
άχυρα αχύροις αχυρον άχυρον ἄχυρον achuron achyron áchyron
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2 Occurrences


ἄχυρον — 2 Occ.

Matthew 3:12 N-ANS
GRK: τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ
NAS: but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
KJV: he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
INT: and [the] chaff he will burn up with fire

Luke 3:17 N-ANS
GRK: τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ
NAS: but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
KJV: but the chaff he will burn
INT: and [the] chaff he will burn with fire

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