ἄχυρον

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Transliteration: áchyron

Pronunciation: akh'-oo-ron

Definition: chaff

- Original: ἄχυρον

- Transliteration: Achuron

- Phonetic: akh'-oo-ron

- Definition:

1. a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out

2. straw broken up by a threshing machine, chaff

- Origin: perhaps remotely from cheo (to shed forth)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Perhaps remotely from χέω cheō (to shed forth); chaff (as diffusive): - chaff.