mots · chaff

What it means

mots (מֹץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chaff”.

The husk of grain, which the wind carries away at winnowing.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The husk of the grain separated in winnowing, which the wind carries off.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• like chaff ×6
• like the chaff ×2

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Hosea×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Job 21:18

  Are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the whirlwind steals away?

• Psalms 1:4

  Not so the wicked, but they are like the chaff that the wind drives away.

• Psalms 35:5

  Let them be like chaff before the wind, and the angel of YHWH pushing them away.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 29:5

  And the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the tyrants like chaff that passes away; and it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

• Isaiah 41:15

  Look, I have made you into a threshing sledge, sharp, new, double-edged; you will thresh mountains and crush them, and the hills like chaff you will make.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Zephaniah 2:2

  before the decree gives birth —like chaff the day passes—, before there comes upon you the burning of the anger of YHWH, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of YHWH.