STRONGS G892:
													
												
									    		ἄχυρον, 
-ου, 
τό, 
a stalk of grain from which the kernels have been beaten out; straw broken up by a threshing-machine, chaff: Matthew 3:12; 
Luke 3:17. (In Greek writings from Herodotus 4, 72; Xenophon, oec. 18. 1, 2, 6 down; mostly in plural 
τὰ ἄχυρα; in 
Job 21:18 Sept. also of the chaff accustomed to being driven away by the wind.) 
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