Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4671
מֹץ
motsmotes
chaff
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4671is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4671
chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
The King James renders it: chaff.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mots is rendered "chaff". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Job 21:18וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like chaff3
- and like chaff2
- like the chaff2
- like chaff of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ1
- וּכְמֹ֤ץ1
- כְּמֹ֥ץ1
- כְּמֹ֤ץ1
- כְּמֹץ֙1
- כְּמֹ֖ץ1
- כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץ1
- כַּמֹּ֥ץ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular2HC/R/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Job
one use
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץukhemotzconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like chaff
Psalms
two uses
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץkamotzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the chaff
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- כְּמֹ֥ץkemotzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like chaff
Isaiah
three uses
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- כְּמֹ֤ץkemotzpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like chaff of
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- וּכְמֹ֤ץukhemotzconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like chaff
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
- כַּמֹּ֥ץkamotzpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the chaff
Hosea
one use
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- כְּמֹץ֙kemotzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like chaff
Zephaniah
one use
before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.
- כְּמֹ֖ץkemotzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like chaff
The letters
Gematria 130· 940 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.