ἄχυρον, -ov, τό, a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out; straw broken up by a threshing machine, chaff: Mt. iii. 12; Lk. iii. 17. (In Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. 4, 72; Xen. oec. 18. 1, 2, 6 down; mostly in plur. τὰ ἄχυρα; in Job xxi. 18 Sept. also of the chaff wont to be driven away by the wind.)

ἄχυρον achuron 2x

chaff, straw broken up by treading out the grain, Mt. 3:12; Lk. 3:17*

ἄχυρον, -ον, τό,

[in LXX chiefly for תֶּבֶן;]

chaff: Mt 3:12, Lk 3:17.†

ἄχυρον. A few citations suffice for this very common word, which survives in MGr. One shows that ‘‘ bricks without straw ”’ were as abnormal in the Ptolemaic period as in the days of the Exodus: P Petr II. 14 (2)13 (as amended III. p- 139) shows directions ἐς τὰ ἄχυρα πρὸς τὴν πλινθολκίαν. So in Syl 5877 (B.C. 329-8, Attica) ἀχύρων σάκοι εἰς τὴν οἰκοδομίαν τοῦ τείχους : Ditt. cites another Attic inscr. which mentions πηλὸς ἠχυρωμένος. This use of chaff was accordingly not limited to Egypt. The practice exemplified typically in the Ptolemaic ostracon, Ost7 1168—)éd(yos) ἀχύρου, an account for fuel εἰς τὰς kapelvous, and in BGU III. 760° (1.4...) & τὰ καὶ χωροῦντα is ὑπόκαυσιν τοῦ με[γάλου γυμ(νασίου), P Fay Osty 21 (A.D. 306) ἀχύρου καυσίμου σάκ(κον) a—reminds us that (brickmaking apart) feeding the fire was the zormal use of the ‘‘chaff.’’ The stern theology of earlier days may have glossed the Baptist’s words with Proy 164!

ἄχυρον (achuron) — chaff. ἄχῠρον [ᾰ], τό, mostly in plural ἄχυρα, chaff, bran, husks left after threshing or grinding, [NT+5th c.BC+] 'pig in clover', of unexpected good fortune, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄχυρα ἀπὸ τοῦ τοίχου ἀποσπᾶν, of dying persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. in plural, ἄ. χρυσοχοϊκά slag from gold-smelting, [Refs]