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To throw

עָפַרStrong’s H6080

aphar (a-phar)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Aphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “dusted”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.”
2 Samuel 16:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Piel) to dust, powder
How it's translated
  • and he dusted 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Samuel 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    עָפַר aphar · to throw

    (Piel) to dust, powder

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “throw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    THROW, verb transitive

    preterit tense threw; participle passive thrown. [Gr. to run; Latin trochilus.]

    1. Properly, to hurl; to whirl; to fling or cast in a winding direction.
    2. To fling or cast in any manner; to propel; to send; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine.
    3. To wind; as, to throw silk.
    4. To turn; as, to throw balls in a lathe.
    All definitions and other forms of “throw”
    1. To venture at dice.
    2. To cast; to divest or strip one's self of; to put off; as, a serpent throws his skin.
    3. To cast; to send.
    4. To put on; to spread carelessly.
    5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
    6. To cast; to drive by violence; as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
    7. To bestow without a compensation.
    8. To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
    9. To bring down from a high station; to depress.
    10. To put in; to deposit with others; also, to give up or relinquish.
    11. To reject; to discard; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
    12. To utter carelessly; to speak; as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
    13. To exert; to bring forth into act.
    14. To distance; to leave behind.
    15. To exclude; to reject.
    16. To resign angrily.
    17. To discharge from the stomach.

    THROW, verb intransitive

    To perform the act of throwing.

    1. To cast dice.

    THROW, noun

    The act of hurling or flinging; a cast; a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.

    1. A cast of dice; and the manner in which dice fall when cast; as a good throw None but a fool hazards all upon one throw
    2. The distance which a missile is or may be thrown; as a stone's throw
    3. A stroke; a blow.
    4. Effort; violent sally.
    5. The agony of travail. [See Throe.]
    6. A turner's lathe. [Local.]

    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.