Môts — H4671

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. chaff
1. always as driven by wind

Usually translated as

chaff

Origin

or môwts; (Zephaniah 2:2), from H4160

• Derived from Mûwts (H4160)

Greek equivalents

• áchyron (G892)
• koniortós (G2868)
• Chouzâs (G5529)

Occurrences

Môts occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Psalms (2), Isaiah (3), Hosea (1), Zephaniah (1)

• Job 21:18 — They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff (וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ) that the storm carrieth away.
• Psalms 1:4 — The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff (כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץ) which the wind driveth away.
• Psalms 35:5 — Let them be as chaff (כְּמֹ֥ץ) before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
• Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff (כְּמֹ֤ץ) of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
• Isaiah 29:5 — Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff (וּכְמֹ֤ץ) that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
• Isaiah 41:15 — Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff (כַּמֹּ֥ץ).
• Hosea 13:3 — Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff (כְּמֹץ֙) that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
• Zephaniah 2:2 — Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff (כְּמֹ֖ץ), before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.