מֹץ
môts · motes
chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מוֹץ; (Zephaniah 2:2), from H4160 (מוּץ);
chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: chaff.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to pursue the straight path
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to pursue the straight path.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֹץ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- as the chaff3 · 38%
- and as chaff1 · 13%
- are not so: but are like the chaff1 · 13%
- let them be as chaff1 · 13%
- shall be as chaff1 · 13%
- as chaff1 · 13%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.