Limitless Word
עָפָרʻâphâr/aw-fawr'/
HebrewH6083110 occurrences (KJV)

dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud

KJV renders it: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.

Where it appears(showing the first 103 of 110)

  • Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 3:14Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
  • Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
  • Gen 13:16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
  • Gen 18:27Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
  • Gen 26:15Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
  • Gen 28:14Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Exod 8:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
  • Exod 8:17They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 14:41and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
  • Lev 14:42They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
  • Lev 14:45He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
  • Lev 17:13“‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
  • Num 5:17and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
  • Num 19:17“For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel.
  • Num 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
  • Deut 9:21I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
  • Deut 28:24Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
  • Deut 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
  • Josh 7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
  • 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
  • 2 Sam 16:13So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
  • 2 Sam 22:43Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
  • 1 Kgs 16:2“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
  • 1 Kgs 18:38Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
  • 1 Kgs 20:10Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
  • 2 Kgs 13:7For he didn’t leave to Jehoahaz of the people any more than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
  • 2 Kgs 23:4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
  • 2 Kgs 23:12The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Kgs 23:15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
  • 2 Chr 1:9Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
  • Neh 4:2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
  • Neh 4:10Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
  • Job 2:12When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
  • Job 4:19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 5:6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
  • Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
  • Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
  • Job 8:19Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
  • Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
  • Job 14:8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
  • Job 14:19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
  • Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
  • Job 17:16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
  • Job 19:25But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
  • Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
  • Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
  • Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
  • Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
  • Job 28:2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
  • Job 28:6Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
  • Job 30:6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
  • Job 30:19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
  • Job 34:15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
  • Job 38:38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
  • Job 39:14For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
  • Job 40:13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
  • Job 41:33On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
  • Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
  • Ps 7:5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
  • Ps 18:42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
  • Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
  • Ps 22:29All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
  • Ps 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
  • Ps 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
  • Ps 72:9Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Ps 78:27He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
  • Ps 102:14For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
  • Ps 103:14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
  • Ps 104:29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
  • Ps 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
  • Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
  • Prov 8:26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
  • Eccl 3:20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
  • Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
  • Isa 2:19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
  • Isa 25:12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
  • Isa 26:5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.
  • Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
  • Isa 29:4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
  • Isa 34:7The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
  • Isa 34:9Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
  • Isa 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
  • Isa 41:2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
  • Isa 47:1“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
  • Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
  • Isa 52:2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
  • Isa 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
  • Lam 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
  • Lam 3:29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
  • Ezek 24:7For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
  • Ezek 26:4They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
  • Ezek 26:12They shall make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the middle of the waters.
  • Ezek 27:30and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
  • Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Amos 2:7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
  • Mic 1:10Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
  • Mic 7:17They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
  • Hab 1:10Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
  • Zeph 1:17I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
  • Zech 9:3Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.