ἄχυρον
chaff
‘chaff’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G892 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, αχυρον (áchyron) means “chaff.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 3:12. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G892 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Chaff 2×
- American Standard Version: Chaff 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chaff 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chaff 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G892 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G892 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G892 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G892 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out
- straw broken up by a threshing machine, chaff
Word origin
Origin: perhaps remotely from cheo (to shed forth)
Perhaps remotely from χέω cheō (to shed forth); chaff (as diffusive ): - chaff.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αχυρον appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 9 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:25 ἄχυρον
- Exodus 5:7 ἄχυρον
- Judges 19:19 ἄχυρον
- 1 Kings 5:1 ἄχυρον
- Job 21:18 ἄχυρον
- Isaiah 11:7 ἄχυρον
- Jeremiah 23:28 ἄχυρον
- Daniel 2:35 ἄχυρον
- Nahum 3:14 ἄχυρον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G892) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:25 ἄχυρον She said moreover to him, "We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in."
- Genesis 24:32 ἄχυρον The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
- Exodus 5:7 ἄχυρον "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:10 ἄχυρον The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw.
- Exodus 5:11 ἄχυρον Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
- Exodus 5:12 ἄχυρον So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 5:13 ἄχυρον The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
- Exodus 5:16 ἄχυρον No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
- Exodus 5:18 ἄχυρον Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
- Judges 19:19 ἄχυρον Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.
- 1 Kings 5:1 ἄχυρον Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
- Job 21:18 ἄχυρον That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
- Job 41:19 ἄχυρον Out of his mouth go burning torches, Sparks of fire leap forth.
- Isaiah 11:7 ἄχυρον The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 17:13 ἄχυρον The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 30:24 ἄχυρον the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
- Isaiah 65:25 ἄχυρον The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 23:28 ἄχυρον The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
- Daniel 2:35 ἄχυρον Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Nahum 3:14 ἄχυρον Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G892) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
