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Lexicon :: Strong's G2868 - koniortos

Aa
κονιορτός
Transliteration
koniortos (Key)
Pronunciation
kon-ee-or-tos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of κονιάω (G2867) and ornumi (to "rouse")
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Strong’s Definitions

κονιορτός koniortós, kon-ee-or-tos'; from the base of G2867 and ornumi (to "rouse"); pulverulence (as blown about):—dust.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G2868 in the following manner: dust (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G2868 in the following manner: dust (5x).

  1. raised dust, flying dust

  2. dust

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κονιορτός koniortós, kon-ee-or-tos'; from the base of G2867 and ornumi (to "rouse"); pulverulence (as blown about):—dust.
STRONGS G2868:
κονιορτός, κονιορτοῦ, ὁ (from κονία, and ὄρνυμι to stir up);
1. properly, raised dust, flying dust (Herodotus, Plato, Polybius, others).
2. universally, dust: Matthew 10:14; Luke 9:5; Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; Acts 22:23. (For אָבָק, Exodus 9:9; Nahum 1:3; for עָפָר, Deuteronomy 9:21.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
9:9
Deuteronomy
9:21
Nahum
1:3
Matthew
10:14
Luke
9:5; 10:11
Acts
13:51; 22:23

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2868 matches the Greek κονιορτός (koniortos),
which occurs 16 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9 - The ashes will spread like fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, causing festering boils to break out on people and animals throughout the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - The watchman on the tower of Jezreel saw Jehu and his company approaching, so he shouted to Joram, “I see a company of troops coming!”
“Send out a rider to ask if they are coming in peace,” King Joram ordered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - Are they driven before the wind like straw?
Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
Not at all!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 -

Young Women of Jerusalem

Who is this sweeping in from the wilderness
like a cloud of smoke?
Who is it, fragrant with myrrh and frankincense
and every kind of spice?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:24 - Instead of smelling of sweet perfume, she will stink.
She will wear a rope for a sash,
and her elegant hair will fall out.
She will wear rough burlap instead of rich robes.
Shame will replace her beauty.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, just as fire licks up stubble
and dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will rot
and their flowers wither.
For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies;
they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,
against a people with whom I am angry.
Assyria will plunder them,
trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13 - But though they thunder like breakers on a beach,
God will silence them, and they will run away.
They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind,
like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:5 - “But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed
like the finest of dust.
Your many attackers will be driven away
like chaff before the wind.
Suddenly, in an instant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - The hooves of his horses will choke the city with dust, and the noise of the charioteers and chariot wheels will shake your walls as they storm through your broken gates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:35 - The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:3 - The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great,
and he never lets the guilty go unpunished.
He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm.
The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
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