STRONGS NUMBER G892


Word Summary
achyron: chaff
Original Word: ἄχυρον
Transliteration: achyron
Phonetic Spelling: (akh'-oo-ron)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: chaff
Meaning: chaff
Strong's Concordance
chaff.

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