CHAFF

CHAFF the refuse of winnowed corn. It was usually burned (Exodus 15=>7; Isaiah 5=>24; Matthew 3=>12). This word sometimes, however, means dried grass or hay (Isaiah 5=>24; 33=> 1 1). Chaff is used as a figure of abortive wickedness (Psalm 1=>4; Matthew 3=>12). Lalse doctrines are also called chaff (Jeremiah 23=>28), or more correctly rendered “chopped straw.” The destruction of the wicked, and their powerlessness, are likened to the carrying away of chaff by the wind (Isaiah 17=>13; Hos. 13=>3; Zephaniah 2 => 2 ).