עָפָר aphar

Hebrew word for “dust” · Strong’s H6083 · used 110 times in 103 verses

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Meaning

1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish; 1a) dry or loose earth; 1b) debris; 1c) mortar; 1d) ore

How it is translated

Glosses given for aphar in context, with how often each is used:

• dust 88
• like dust 7
• like the dust 5
• earth 2
• debris 2
• dusts 2
• ground 2
• some of the dust 1
• will be dust 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 23 (4), Leviticus 14 (3), Genesis 3 (2), Exodus 8 (2), Nehemiah 4 (2), Job 7 (2), Job 14 (2), Job 28 (2), Job 30 (2), Psalms 22 (2)

Forms

• עפר 48
• כעפר 12
• העפר 8
• בעפר 7
• לעפר 7
• מעפר 6
• ועפר 4
• עפרם 3
• עפרה 3
• ומעפר 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with aphar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶבֶן even “stone” 10
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 8
• לָחַךְ lachakh “to lick” 4
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 8
• נַחַל nachal “torrent” 6
• מִן־ min “from” 10
• דָּקַק daqaq “to crush” 4
• אֵפֶר epher “ashes” 4
• חַי chay “alive” 7
• חֹמֶר chomer “clay” 4
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 5
• שָׁחַק shachaq “to beat” 3

Key verses

The verses using aphar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 2:7 — And 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 3:19 — In 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…
• Genesis 13:16 — And 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.
• 1 Samuel 2:8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory:…
• Job 42:6 — Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
• Psalms 113:7 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
• Ecclesiastes 12:7 — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Isaiah 2:19 — And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to…
• Isaiah 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth…
• Isaiah 47:1 — Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be…
• Isaiah 49:23 — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the…
• Daniel 12:2 — 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.