ἄχῠρον [ ᾰ], τό,
mostly in pl. ἄχυρα,
I chaff, bran, husks left after threshing or grinding, Hdt. 4.72, Pherecr. 161, Antiph. 226.2, X. Oec. 18.1; ἐν τοῖς ἀ. κυλινδομένην Hermipp. 47: sg., Thphr. HP 8.4.1, [Mat 3:12], etc.: prov., ὄνος εἰς ἄχυρα ’pig in clover’, of unexpected good fortune, Philem. 188, cf. Ar. Fr. 76: metaph., ἄχυρα τῶν ἀστῶν, of μέτοικοι, Id. Ach. 508; ἄχυρα ἀπὸ τοῦ τοίχου ἀποσπᾶν, of dying persons, Hp. Prog. 4.
II in pl., ἄ. χρυσοχοϊκά slag from gold-smelting, PHolm. 5.7.
G892 — ἄχυρον
ἀχύρου, τό, "a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out; straw broken up by a threshing-machine, chaff": [Mat 3:12]; [Luk 3:17]. (In Greek writings from Herodotus 4, 72; Xenophon, oec. 18. 1, 2, 6 down; mostly in plural τά ἄχυρα; in [Job 21:18] the Sept. also of the chaff accustomed to being driven away by the wind.)