Lexicon :: Strong's H6083 - ʿāp̄ār

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all the cattle,

And more than any animal of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And dust you shall eat

All the days of your life.

“By the sweat of your face

You will eat bread

Until you return to the ground,

For from it you were taken;

For you are dust,

And to dust you shall return.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become [biting] gnats (lice) throughout the land of Egypt.’”

“Who can count the dust (the descendants) of Jacob

And the number of even the fourth part of Israel?

Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God],

And let my end be like his!”

‘They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague

And a bitter destruction;

And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and [with great sorrow] they put dust on their heads.

“He raises up the poor from the dust,

He lifts up the needy from the ash heap

To make them sit with nobles,

And inherit a seat of honor and glory;

For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S,

And He set the land on them.

“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;

I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, for [the goddess] Asherah, and for all the [starry] host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel [where Israel’s idolatry began].

Further, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he tore down. Then he demolished its stones, ground them to dust, and burned the Asherah.

Then [the leaders of] Judah said,

“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,

And there is much rubble;

We ourselves are unable

To rebuild the wall.”

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,

Whose foundations are in the dust,

Who are crushed like a moth.

“For affliction does not come forth from the dust,

Nor does trouble spring forth from the ground.

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;

My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression

And take away my sin and guilt?

For now I will lie down in the dust;

And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”

“Behold, this is the joy of His way;

And from out of the dust others will spring up and grow [to take his place].

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;

So will You turn me into dust again?

“Though its roots grow old in the earth

And its stump dies in the dry soil,

Water wears away the stones,

Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,

So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin [as a sign of mourning]

And have defiled my horn (symbol of strength) in the dust.

“Will my hope go down with me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)?

Shall we go down together in the dust?”

“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,

And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.

“His bones are full of youthful strength

But it lies down with him in the dust.

“Together they lie down in the dust,

And the worms cover them.

And place your gold in the dust,

And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks [considering it of little value],

“Though he heaps up silver like dust

And piles up clothing like clay,