Strong's Concordance
karphos: a small dry stalk
Original Word: κάρφος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: karphos
Phonetic Spelling: (kar'-fos)
Short Definition: a dry stalk, chip of wood
Definition: a dry stalk, chip of wood, twig, splinter, chaff.
HELPS Word-studies
2595 kárphos – properly, a small particle (a splinter of straw or wood); "a dry stalk; a chip of wood" (Souter); something dry and light; a "chip or splinter, of the same material with the beam" (WS, 35).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2595: κάρφοςκάρφος,
καρφεος (
καρφους),
τό (from
κάρφω to contract, dry up, wither),
a dry stalk or twig, a straw; chaff (
A. V. mote):
Matthew 7:3-5;
Luke 6:41f, where it figuratively denotes a smaller fault. (
Genesis 8:11; in Greek writings from
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down.)