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Lexicon :: Strong's G5522 - chous

Aa
χοῦς
Transliteration
chous (Key)
Pronunciation
kho'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the base of χειμών (G5494)
mGNT
2x in 1 unique form(s) TR
2x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
49x in 5 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Strong’s Definitions

χόος chóos, kho'-os; from the base of G5494; a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish; loose dirt:—dust.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G5522 in the following manner: dust (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G5522 in the following manner: dust (2x).

  1. earth dug out, an earth heap

  2. dust

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χόος chóos, kho'-os; from the base of G5494; a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish; loose dirt:—dust.
STRONGS G5522:
χὠς, see χοῦς.

Related entry:
χοῦς, χὠς, accusative χοῦν, ὁ (contracted for χὠς, from χέω, to pour), from Herodotus down;
1. properly, earth dug out, an earth-heap (German Schutt): ὁ χοῦς ὁ ἐξορυχθεις, Herodotus 2, 150.
2. dust (the Sept. for עָפָר): Mark 6:11; Revelation 18:19 ((Joshua 7:11; Wis. 5:15; Sir. 44:21, etc.); Plutarch, mor., p. 1096 b. (i. e. non posse suaviter etc. 13, 7)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Joshua
7:11
Mark
6:11
Revelation
18:19

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Joshua
7:11
Mark
6:11
Revelation
18:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5522 matches the Greek χοῦς (chous),
which occurs 49 times in 47 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off, without the city into an unclean place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42 - and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 -
Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth,
I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, 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 brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8 - The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9 - And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - Now, O Jehovah God, let thy promise unto David my father be established; for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 -
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth,
And warmeth them in the dust,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5 -
Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust.
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 -
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind;
I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 -
My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 -
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 -
For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 -
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 -
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust,
And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 -
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
And have pity upon her dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14 -
For he knoweth our frame;
He remembereth that we are dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29 -
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled;
Thou takest away their breath, they die,
And return to their dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7 - and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 -
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence;
They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden, to profane my holy name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear unto Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
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