Definition

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

Etymology

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

Word family

• מוּץ mûwts

How the KJV renders it

• chaff

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.