מֹץmôts

chaff (Isaiah 29:5; Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 17:13; Job 21:18; Psalms 1:4)

Pronunciation: motes · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4671

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Job 21:18 Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!
  • Psalms 1:4 But not the wicked! They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind.
  • Psalms 35:5 Blow them away like chaff in the wind— a wind sent by the angel of the Lord.
  • Isaiah 17:13 But though they thunder like breakers on a beach, God will silence them, and they will run away. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind, like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.
  • Isaiah 29:5 “But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. Suddenly, in an instant,
  • Isaiah 41:15 You will be a new threshing instrument with many sharp teeth. You will tear your enemies apart, making chaff of mountains.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).