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Lexicon :: Strong's G5522 - chous

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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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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)).
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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 God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, [fn] and the man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesrain, Phud, and Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Rhegma, and Sabathaca. And the sons of Rhegma, Saba, and Dadan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside 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 scraped stones, and put them in the place of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - There shall be among you just balances and just weights and a just liquid measure. I am the Lord 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 - The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - And Joshua tore his garments; and Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Semei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones [fn]at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and devoured the whole-burnt-offerings, and the wood and the water that was in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - (LXX 21:10) And the son of Ader sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for [fn]foxes to all the people, even my infantry.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - Whereas there was not left any [fn]army to Joachaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the [fn]fields of Kedron, and [fn]took the ashes of them to Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burned it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to [fn]powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the 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 Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Also the high altar in Bæthel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8 - And the sons of Cham, Chus, and Mesraim, Phud and Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9 - And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sebethaca: and the sons of Regma, Saba, and Dadan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a mighty hunter on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - And now, O Lord God, let, I pray thee, thy name be established upon David my father; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - (LXX 4:4) And Juda said, The strength of the enemies is broken, yet there is much rubbish, and we shall not be able to build the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 - for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5 - (LXX 7:6) Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - (LXX 17:43) I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - (LXX 21:16) My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - (LXX 29:10) What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - (LXX 43:26) For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 - (LXX 71:9) The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - (LXX 77:27) And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - (LXX 101:15) For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14 - (LXX 102:14) For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29 - (LXX 103:29) But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish 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 princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Sion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - Jod. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
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