Strong's Definition
or mowts (Zephaniah 2:2) {motes}; from 4160; chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)
KJV Usage: chaff
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מוֹץ (mots) — chaff. 1) chaff 1a) always as driven by wind
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Plants | ≈ תֶּבֶן · חֲשַׁשׁ
chaff = debris and husks crushed and separated from grain and carried away by the wind when threshing and winnowing ≈ associated especially with the transient nature and disappearance of evil people and enemies.
JOB 21:18 · PSA 1:4 · PSA 35:5 · ISA 17:13 · ISA 29:5 · ISA 41:15 · HOS 13:3 · ZEP 2:2
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מוֹץ], מֹץ n.m. Is 29:5 chaff;—מ׳ abs. Ho 13:3 + 6 t.; cstr. Is 17:13;—chaff, always as driven by wind, and alw. c. כְּ, in sim.; of wicked Jb 21:18 (∥ תֶּבֶן לִפְנֵי רוּחַ), cf. ψ 1:4 35:5 Ho 13:3; of hostile nations Is 17:13 (מ׳ הָרִים), 29:5 (∥ אָבָק דַּךְ); hyperb. of Judah's power, גְּבָעוֹת כַּמֹּץ תָּשִׂים Is 41:15 (∥ תָּדוּשׁ הָרִים וְתָדֹק); of passing time, יוֹם Zp 2:2. ref