Strong’s H4671 · Hebrew

מֹץ
môts
motes

Definition

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

Etymology

or מוֹץ; (Zephaniah 2:2), from H4160 (מוּץ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • chaff

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What the first audience heard

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