noun · neuter
achurem
Strong’sG892
chaff
stem achur-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄχυρον, -ον, τό,
[in LXX chiefly for תֶּבֶן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G892 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidakh'-oo-ron
chaff (as diffusive)
Fromperhaps remotely from χέω (to shed forth);
King Jameschaff.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
mostly in plural ἄχυρα, chaff, bran, husks left after threshing or grinding, NT+5th c.BC+ 'pig in clover', of unexpected good fortune, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄχυρα ἀπὸ τοῦ τοίχου ἀποσπᾶν, of dying persons, Refs 5th c.BC+
II in plural, ἄ. χρυσοχοϊκά slag from gold-smelting, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | achurem | achureim |
| of, belonging to genitive | achureu | achureiu |
| to, for dative | achure | achurei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
achure is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
achurem2×
Matthew 3:12… autou eis tan apothēkan, tem de achurem katakaiati pure asbeste.… but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke 3:17… eis tan apothēkan autou, tem de achurem katakaiati pure asbeste.… but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”