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Lexicon :: Strong's H6083 - ʿāp̄ār

Aa
עָפָר
Transliteration
ʿāp̄ār
Pronunciation
aw-fawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1664a

Strong’s Definitions

עָפָר ʻâphâr, aw-fawr'; from H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:—ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x

The KJV translates Strong's H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x
The KJV translates Strong's H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).
  1. dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish

    1. dry or loose earth

    2. debris

    3. mortar

    4. ore

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָפָר ʻâphâr, aw-fawr'; from H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:—ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
STRONGS H6083: Abbreviations
עָפָר noun masculineLeviticus 14:42 dry earth, dust; — absolute ע׳ Genesis 2:7 +, construct עֲפַר Genesis 13:16 +; suffix עֲפָרֵךְ Ezekiel 26:12, עֲפָרוֺ Deuteronomy 9:21, etc.; plural construct עַפְרֹת Job 28:6; Proverbs 8:26; —
1. literally:
a. dry, loose earth, thrown (in malice) 2 Samuel 16:13 (|| אֲבָנִים); עַלרֿאֹשׁ וַיַעֲלוּ ע׳ Joshua 7:6 (J E; sign of grief), so Ezekiel 27:30; Lamentations 2:10, and (with זָרַק) Job 2:12; loose earth (on surface of ground) 1 Kings 18:38; Amos 2:7; Micah 1:10; Isaiah 34:7, 9; Leviticus 17:13 (H) Ezekiel 24:7 (in figurative), Numbers 5:17; Job 14:19; Job 38:38; Job 39:14; Genesis 26:15 (R), made into siege works Habakkuk 1:10; of sand-storm Deuteronomy 28:24 (+ אָבָק); as serpent's food, token of punishment and humiliation, Genesis 3:14 (J) Isaiah 65:25 (compare Micah 7:17 2e below); זֹחֲלֵי ע׳ Deuteronomy 32:24 (poem; compare 2e).
b. specifically as material of human body Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19 (J), Ecclesiastes 3:20, compare Job 4:19; Job 8:19; Psalm 103:14, to which it returns (שׁוּב אֶלֿ) Genesis 3:19; Job 10:9; Psalm 104:29; Ecclesiastes 3:20; so (with עַל) Job 34:15; Ecclesiastes 12:7.
c. = surface of ground Exodus 8:12; Exodus 8:13 (twice in verse); (P; הָאָרַץ ע׳), Job 19:25; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 26:5 (both || אֶרֶץ), surface of (whole) earth Job 41:25, מְחִלוֺת ע׳ Isaiah 2:19 (for hiding), so ע׳ alone Isaiah 2:10, compare חֹרֵי ע׳ Job 30:6; = soil, Job 5:6; Job 14:8.
d. powder of anything pulverized Deuteronomy 9:21 (twice in verse) (compare דָּ֑ק || Exodus 32:20), 2 Kings 23:6 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 23:12, 15, so in simile 2 Samuel 22:43 = Psalm 18:43, hence = ashes Psalm 18:4; Numbers 19:17.
e. debris, of ruined city 1 Kings 20:10; Ezekiel 26:4, 12; Nehemiah 3:34; Nehemiah 4:4; Psalm 102:15. The following are late:
f. earth of the grave: אֶשְׁכַּב לֶע׳ Job 7:21, so (with עַל) Job 20:11; Job 21:26, compare Job 17:16; יוֺרְדֵי ע׳ Psalm 22:30, שֹׁכְנֵי ע׳ Isaiah 26:19, יְשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַתעֿ׳ Daniel 12:2; עֲפַרמָֿוֶת Psalm 22:16; ע׳ in figure Psalm 30:10.
g. mortar (i.e. dried mud) for plastering houses Leviticus 14:41, 42, 45 (P).
h. (iron-) ore Job 28:2; עַפְרֹת זָהָב Job 28:6 gold-dust (but see סַמִּיר).
i. material of earth Isaiah 40:12, compare ראֹשׁ עַפְרֹת תֵּבֵל Proverbs 8:26 the first of the earth particles of the world.
2. figurative:
a. of abundance Genesis 13:16 (twice in verse); Genesis 28:14 (all J) 2 Chronicles 1:9; Job 27:16; Psalm 78:27 (|| חוֺל יַמִּים), compare עֲפַר יַעֲקֹב Numbers 23:10 (JE); with added idea of commonness, worthlessness Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 9:3.
b. of worthlessness (alone) Job 22:24.
c. simile of the scattered, dispersed 2 Kings 13:7; כֶּע׳ Isaiah 41:2 (so van d. H. Ginsb; Baer כֵּע׳; on meaning see Du Che, reading תְּשִׂימֵם for יִתֵּן).
d. of self-abasement Genesis 18:27 (+ אֵפַר), וְנִחַמְתִּי עַלעֿ׳ וָאֵפֶר Job 42:6, מִּיהוּ יִתֵּן בֶּע׳ Lamentations 3:29.
e. of humiliation (sitting or lying in dust) Isaiah 47:1; compare Isaiah 29:4 (twice in verse), Job 16:15; Job 40:13; Psalm 7:6; Psalm 44:26; Psalm 119:25, simile Job 30:19; licking dust Psalm 72:9; Isaiah 49:23; Micah 7:17, compare Tel Amarna tikalu ipra (of enemies, see WklAltor. Forsch. iii. 291; also of serpent 1a above); of י׳ raising from the dust 1 Samuel 2:8 = Psalm 113:7, 1 Kings 16:2; of lifting oneself Isaiah 52:2.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:7; 2:7; 3:14; 3:19; 3:19; 13:16; 13:16; 18:27; 26:15; 28:14

Exodus

8:12; 8:13; 32:20

Leviticus

14:41; 14:42; 14:42; 14:45; 17:13

Numbers

5:17; 19:17; 23:10

Deuteronomy

9:21; 9:21; 28:24; 32:24

Joshua

7:6

1 Samuel

2:8

2 Samuel

16:13; 22:43

1 Kings

16:2; 18:38; 20:10

2 Kings

13:7; 23:6; 23:12; 23:15

2 Chronicles

1:9

Nehemiah

4:4

Job

2:12; 4:19; 5:6; 7:21; 8:19; 10:9; 14:8; 14:19; 16:15; 17:16; 19:25; 20:11; 21:26; 22:24; 27:16; 28:2; 28:6; 28:6; 30:6; 30:19; 34:15; 38:38; 39:14; 40:13; 41:25; 42:6

Psalms

7:6; 18:4; 18:43; 22:16; 22:30; 30:10; 44:26; 72:9; 78:27; 102:15; 103:14; 104:29; 113:7; 119:25

Proverbs

8:26; 8:26

Ecclesiastes

3:20; 3:20; 12:7

Isaiah

2:10; 2:19; 25:12; 26:5; 26:19; 29:4; 34:7; 34:9; 40:12; 41:2; 47:1; 49:23; 52:2; 65:25

Lamentations

2:10; 3:29

Ezekiel

24:7; 26:4; 26:12; 26:12; 27:30

Daniel

12:2

Amos

2:7

Micah

1:10; 7:17; 7:17

Habakkuk

1:10

Zephaniah

1:7

Zechariah

9:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6083 matches the Hebrew עָפָר (ʿāp̄ār),
which occurs 110 times in 103 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 2:7–Job 27:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - Then the LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 the man H120 of dust H6083 from the ground H127, and breathed H5301 into his nostrils H639 the breath H5397 of life H2416; and the man H120 became H1961 a living H2416 [fn]person H5315.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - Then the LORD H3068 God H430 said H559 to the serpent H5175,

“Because H3588 you have done H6213 this H2088,

Cursed H779 are you more H4480 than H4480 all H3605 the livestock H929,

And more H4480 than H4480 any H3605 animal H2416 of the field H7704;

On your belly H1512 you shall go H1980,

And dust H6083 you shall eat H398

All H3605 the days H3117 of your life H2416;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:19 -

By the sweat H2188 of your face H639

You shall eat H398 bread H3899,

Until H5704 you return H7725 to the ground H127,

Because H3588 from it you were taken H3947;

For you are dust H6083,

And to dust H6083 you shall return H7725.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “I will make H7760 your [fn]descendants H2233 as plentiful as the dust H6083 of the earth H776, so H834 that H834 if H518 anyone H376 can H3201 count H4487 the dust H6083 of the earth H776, then your [fn]descendants H2233 could also H1571 be counted H4487.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - And Abraham H85 replied H6030, “Now H4994 behold H2009, I have [fn]ventured H2974 to speak H1696 to the Lord H136, although I am only dust H6083 and ashes H665.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all H3605 the wells H875 which H834 his father’s H1 servants H5650 had dug H2658 in the days H3117 of his father H1 Abraham H85, the Philistines H6430 stopped H5640 up H5640 [fn]by filling H4390 them with dirt H6083.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants H2233 will also be like the dust H6083 of the earth H776, and you will [fn]spread H6555 out H6555 to the west H3220 and to the east H6924, and to the north H6828 and to the south H5045; and in you and in your [fn]descendants H2233 shall all H3605 the families H4940 of the earth H127 be blessed H1288.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:16 -

Then the LORD H3068 said H559 to Moses H4872, “Say H559 to Aaron H175, ‘Extend H5186 your staff H4294 and strike H5221 the dust H6083 of the earth H776, so that it may turn H1961 into [fn]gnats H3654 through all H3605 the land H776 of Egypt H4714.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:17 - They did H6213 so H3651; and Aaron H175 extended H5186 his hand H3027 with his staff H4294 and struck H5221 the dust H6083 of the earth H776, and there were [fn]gnats H3654 on every [fn]person H120 and animal H929. All H3605 the dust H6083 of the earth H776 turned H1961 into [fn]gnats H3654 through all H3605 the land H776 of Egypt H4714.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - “And he shall have the house H1004 scraped H7106 all H5439 around H5439 [fn]inside H4480 H1004, and they shall dump H8210 the plaster H6083 that they scrape H7096 off H7096 at an unclean H2931 place H4725 outside H4480 H2351 the city H5892.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42 - “Then they shall take H3947 other H312 stones H68 and replace H8478 H935 the discarded stones H68, and he shall take H3947 other H312 plaster H6083 and replaster H2902 the house H1004.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - The owner shall therefore tear H5422 down H5422 the house H1004, its stones H68, its timbers H6086, and all H3605 the plaster H6083 of the house H1004, and he shall take H3318 them outside H413 H4480 H2351 the city H5892 to an unclean H2931 place H4725.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:13 - “So when anyone H376 from the sons H1121 of Israel H3478, or from the strangers H1616 who reside H1481 among H8432 them, [fn]while hunting H6718 catches H6679 an animal H2416 or H176 a bird H5775 which H834 may be eaten H398, he shall pour H8210 out H8210 its blood H1818 and cover H3680 it with dirt H6083.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - and the priest H3548 shall take H3947 holy H6918 water H4325 in an earthenware H2789 container H3627; and [fn]he shall take H3947 some H4480 of the dust H6083 that is on the floor H7172 of the tabernacle H4908 and put H5414 it in the water H4325.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:17 - ‘Then for the unclean H2931 person they shall take H3947 some H4480 of the [fn]ashes H6083 of the [fn]burnt H8316 [fn]purification H2403 from H2403 sin H2403 and [fn]running H2416 water H4325 shall be [fn]added H5414 to them in a container H3627.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 -

“Who H4310 has counted H4487 the dust H6083 of Jacob H3290,

Or the number H4557 of the fourth H7255 part H7255 of Israel H3478?

May [fn]I die H4191 the death H4194 of the upright H3477,

And may my end H319 be like H3644 his!”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - “And I took H3947 your [fn]sinful H2403 thing which H834 you had made H6213, the calf H5695, and burned H8313 it in the fire H784 and crushed H3807 it, grinding H2912 it thoroughly H3190 until H5704 H834 it was as fine H1854 as dust H6083; and I threw H7993 its dust H6083 into the stream H5158 that came H3381 down H3381 from the mountain H2022.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - “The LORD H3068 will make H5414 the rain H4306 of your land H776 powder H80 and dust H6083; from heaven H8064 it shall come H3381 down H3381 on you until H5704 you are destroyed H8045.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 -

They will be wasted H4198 by famine H7458, and emaciated H3898 by [fn]plague H7565

And a bitter H4815 epidemic H6986;

And the teeth H8127 of beasts H929 I will send H7971 against them,

With the venom H2534 of crawling H2119 things H2119 of the dust H6083.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 -

Then Joshua H3091 tore H7167 his clothes H8071 and fell H5307 to the ground H776 on his face H6440 before H6440 the ark H727 of the LORD H3068 until H5704 the evening H6153, both he and the elders H2205 of Israel H3478; and they put H5927 dust H6083 on their heads H7218.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:8 -

“He raises H6965 the poor H1800 from the dust H6083,

He lifts H7311 the needy H34 from the garbage H830 heap H6083

To seat H3427 them with nobles H5081,

And He gives H5157 them a seat H3678 of honor H3519 as H5157 an H5157 inheritance H5157;

For the pillars H4690 of the earth H776 are the LORD’S H3068,

And He set H7896 the world H8398 on them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David H1732 and his men H376 went H1980 on the road H1870; and Shimei H8096 kept H1980 going H1980 on the hillside H6763 H2022 close H5980 beside H5980 him, and as he went H1980 he cursed H7043 and threw H5619 stones H68 and dirt H6083 at him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 -

“Then I pulverized H7833 them as the dust H6083 of the earth H776;

I crushed H1854 and trampled H7554 them like the mud H2916 of the streets H2351.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Since H3282 H834 I exalted H7311 you from the dust H6083 and made H5414 you leader H5057 over H5921 My people H5971 Israel H3478, and you have walked H1980 in the way H1870 of Jeroboam H3379 and have misled H2398 My people H5971 Israel H3478 into H2398 sin H2398, provoking H3707 Me to H3707 anger H3707 with their sins H2403,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire H784 of the LORD H3068 fell H5307 and consumed H398 the burnt H5930 offering H5930 and the wood H6086, and the stones H68 and the dust H6083; and it licked H3897 up H3897 the water H4325 that was in the trench H8585.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Ben-hadad H1130 sent H7971 word to him and said H559, “May the gods H430 do H6213 so H3541 to me and more H3254 so H3541, [fn]if H518 the dust H6083 of Samaria H8111 will be enough H5606 for handfuls H8168 for all H3605 the people H5971 who H834 [fn]follow H7272 me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he left H7604 to Jehoahaz H3059 no H3808 more H3588 H518 of the [fn]army H5971 than H3588 H518 fifty H2572 horsemen H6571, ten H6235 chariots H7393, and ten H6235 thousand H505 infantry H7273, because H3588 the king H4428 of Aram H758 had eliminated H6 them and made H7760 them like the dust H6083 at threshing H1758.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 -

Then the king H4428 commanded H6680 Hilkiah H2518 the high H1419 priest H3548, the priests H3548 of the second H4932 order, and the [fn]doorkeepers H8104 H5592 to bring H3318 out H3318 of the temple H1964 of the LORD H3068 all H3605 the utensils H3627 that had been made H6213 for Baal H1168, for [fn]Asherah H842, and for all H3605 the heavenly H8064 [fn]lights H6635; and he burned H8313 them outside H4480 H2351 Jerusalem H3389 in the fields H7709 of the Kidron H6939 Valley, and carried H5375 their ashes H6083 to Bethel H1008.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - He also brought H3318 out H3318 the Asherah H842 from the house H1004 of the LORD H3068 outside H4480 H2351 Jerusalem H3389 to the brook H5158 Kidron H6939, and burned H8313 it at the brook H5158 Kidron H6939, and ground H1854 it to dust H6083, and threw H7993 its dust H6083 on the graves H6913 of the [fn]common H1121 people H5971.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The king H4428 also tore H5422 down H5422 the altars H4196 that were on the roof H1406, the upper H5944 chamber H5944 of Ahaz H271, which H834 the kings H4428 of Judah H3063 had made H6213, and the altars H4196 which H834 Manasseh H4519 had made H6213 in the two H8147 courtyards H2691 of the house H1004 of the LORD H3068; and he [fn]smashed H7533 them there H8033 and threw H7993 their dust H6083 into the brook H5158 Kidron H6939.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 -

Furthermore H1571, the altar H4196 that was at Bethel H1008 and the high H1116 place H1116 which H834 Jeroboam H3379 the son H1121 of Nebat H5028, who H834 misled H2398 Israel H3478 into H2398 sin H2398, had made H6213, even H1571 that altar H4196 and the high H1116 place H1116 he tore H5422 down H5422. Then he burned H8313 the high H1116 place H1116, ground H1854 the remains to dust H6083, and burned H8313 the Asherah H842.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - “Now H6258, LORD H3068 God H430, Your [fn]promise H1697 to my father H1 David H1732 is fulfilled H539, for You have made H4427 me king H4427 over H5921 a people H5971 as numerous H7227 as the dust H6083 of the earth H776.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - And he spoke H559 in the presence H6440 of his brothers H251 and the [fn]wealthy H2428 people H2428 of Samaria H8111 and said H559, “What H4100 are these feeble H537 Jews H3064 doing H6213? Are they going to restore H5800 the temple for themselves? Can they offer H2076 sacrifices H2076? Can they finish H3615 it in a day H3117? Can they revive H2421 the stones H68 from the heaps H6194 of rubble H6083, even the burned H8313 ones?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 -

And so [fn]in Judah H3063 it was said H559:

“The strength H3581 of the burden H5449 bearers H5449 is failing H3782,

Yet there is much H7235 rubble H6083;

And we ourselves H587 are H3201 unable H3808 H3201

To rebuild H1129 the wall H2346.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - When they [fn]looked H5375 H5869 from a distance H7350 and did not recognize H5234 him, they raised H5375 their voices H6963 and wept H1058. And each H376 of them tore H7167 his robe H4598, and they threw H2236 dust H6083 over H5921 their heads H7218 toward the sky H8064.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 -

‘How H637 much H637 more H637 those who live H7931 in H7931 houses H1004 of clay H2563,

Whose H834 foundation H3247 is in the dust H6083,

Who are crushed H1792 before H6440 the moth H6211!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 -

“For disaster H205 does not come H3318 from the dust H6083,

Nor H3808 does trouble H5999 sprout H6779 from the ground H127,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 -

“My flesh H1320 is clothed H3847 with maggots H7415 and a crust H1487 of dirt H6083,

My skin H5785 hardens H7280 and [fn]oozes H4549.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 -

“Why H4100 then do You not forgive H5375 my wrongdoing H6588

And take H5674 away H5674 my [fn]guilt H5771?

For now H6258 I will lie H7901 down H7901 in the dust H6083;

And You will search H7836 for me, but I will no H369 longer exist H369.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 -

“Behold H2005, this H1931 is the joy H4885 of His way H1870;

And out of the dust H6083 others H312 will spring H6779.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 -

‘Remember H2142 that You have made H6213 me as clay H2563;

Yet would You turn H7725 me into dust H6083 again H7725?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 -

“Though H518 its roots H8328 grow H2204 old H2204 in the ground H776,

And its stump H1503 dies H4191 in the dry H6083 soil H6083,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 -

Water H4325 wears H7833 away H7833 stones H68,

Its torrents H5599 wash H7857 away H7857 the dust H6083 of the earth H776;

So You destroy H6 a man’s H582 hope H8615.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 -

“I have sewed H8609 sackcloth H8242 over H5921 my skin H1539,

And thrust H5953 my horn H7161 in the dust H6083.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 -

[fn]Will it go H3381 down H3381 with me to Sheol H7585?

Shall we together H3162 go H5181 down H5181 into the dust H6083?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25 -

“Yet as for me, I know H3045 that my Redeemer H1350 lives H2416,

And at the last H314, He will take H6965 His stand H6965 on the [fn]earth H6083.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 -

“His bones H6106 are full H4390 of his youthful H5934 strength H5934,

But it lies H7901 down H7901 with him [fn]in the dust H6083.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 -

“Together H3162 they lie H7901 down H7901 in the dust H6083,

And maggots H7415 cover H3680 them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 -

And put H7896 your [fn]gold H1220 in the dust H6083,

And the gold of Ophir H211 among the stones H6697 of the brooks H5158,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 -

“Though H518 he piles H6651 up H6651 silver H3701 like dust H6083,

And prepares H3559 garments H4403 as plentiful as the clay H2563,


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