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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἄχυρον

(Strong's #892 — Noun Neuter — achuron — akh'-oo-ron )

"chaff, the stalk of the grain from which the kernels have been beaten out, or the straw broken up by a threshing machine," is found in Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17 .

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Chaff'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​c/chaff.html. 1940.
 
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