Quick Definition
a dry stalk, chip of wood
Strong's Definition
a dry twig or straw
Derivation: from (to wither);
KJV Usage: mote
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κάρφος, καρφεος (καρφους), τό (from κάρφω to contract, dry up, wither), a dry stalk or twig, a straw; chaff (A. V. mote): Mat_7:3-5; Luk_6:41 f, where it figuratively denotes a smaller fault. (Gen_8:11; in Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κάρφος karphos 6x
any small dry thing, as chaff, stubble, splinter; Mat_7:3-5 ; Luk_6:41-42
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κάρφος , -εος (-ους ) τό ,
[in LXX : Gen_8:11 ( H2963 ) * ;]
a small dry stalk, a twig; metaph ., of a minor fault: Mat_7:3-5 , Luk_6:41-42 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κάρφος [page 322]
κάρφος is found in a sepulchral epitaph Kaibel 980 .9 where it is said of the pious man (ὁ εὐσεβής ) οὐδὲ κάρφος ἐβλάβη , he was not a whit injured (cf. LS s.v. ) : see Mat_7:3 , where all our English versions from Wychlife down to RV adopt the translation mote = a very small particle. The Old Lat. has stipula , and the Vulg. festuca : cf. Hesych. κάρφος· ἄχυρον , χόρτος . κεραία ξύλου λεπτή .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κάρφος κάρφος, εος, "a dry stalk", Lat. palea, stipula, a chip of wood, Ar. : in pl. "the dry sticks" of cinnamon, Hdt. ; "dry twigs, chips, straws, bits of wool", such as birds make nests of, Ar. [Etym: from ΚΆΡΦΩ]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κάρφος, -εος (-ους) τό
[in LXX: Gen.8:11 (טָרַף) * ;]
a small dry stalk, a twig; metaphorically, of a minor fault: Mat.7:3-5, Luk.6:41-42.†
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