Dust
אָבָקStrong’s H0080avaq (a-vaq)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “dust”, “like dust” and “dust their”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Duston ground · clouds (fig.)
How it's translated
- dust 2
- like dust 2
- dust their 1
- dust of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 28:24The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
- Ezekiel 26:10By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
- Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Hebrew dictionary
אָבָק avaq · dust
1) dust 1a) on ground 1b) clouds (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DUST, noun
- Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attenuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind; powder; as clouds of dust and seas of blood.
- Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth.“The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust” Job 39:14
- Earth; unorganized earthy matter.“DUST thou art, and to dust shalt thou return” Genesis 3:19
- The grave.“For now shall I sleep in the dust” Job 7:21
All definitions and other forms of “dust”
- A low condition.“God raiseth the poor out of the dust” 1 Samuel 2:8
DUST, verb transitive
- To free from dust; to brush, wipe or sweep away dust; as, to dust a table or a floor.
- To sprinkle with dust
- To levigate.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.