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חֲשַׁשׁ

cha.shash

chaff

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Strong’s H2842Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

dry grass2

In the text

Isaiah 5:24וַחֲשַׁשׁ
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֲשַׁשׁ n.m. chaff

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.