Dust
עָפָרStrong’s H6083aphar (a-phar)
Appears in 103 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “dust”, “dust of” and “like dust”. It appears in 103 verses of the Old Testament.
“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Meaning
- Dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbishdry or loose earth · debris · mortar · ore
How it's translated
- dust 35
- dust of 10
- the dust 7
- like dust 7
- from dust 5
- in the dust 5
- like dust of 4
- dust its 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 26
- Isaiah 14
- Psalms 13
- Genesis 7
- 2 Kings 5
- Leviticus 4
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 9:3In contextAnd Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
- Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 3:14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
- Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 13:16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
- Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
All 103 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עָפָר aphar · dust
1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish 1a) dry or loose earth 1b) debris 1c) mortar 1d) ore
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.