Lexicon :: Strong's G5522 - chous

Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Ham’s sons: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

“He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and have the plaster[fn] that is scraped off dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

“It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

“You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure,[fn] and an honest liquid measure;[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“The LORD will turn the rain of your land into falling[fn] dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei was going along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he cursed David, threw stones at him, and kicked up dust.

I pulverize them like dust of the earth;

I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

Then the LORD’s fire fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench.

Then Ben-hadad sent messengers to him and said, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if Samaria’s dust amounts to a handful for each of the people who follow me.”

Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust at threshing.

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the LORD’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

He brought out the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.[fn]

The king tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had made on the roof of Ahaz’s upper chamber. He also tore down the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. Then he smashed them[fn] there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

Ham’s sons: Cush, Mizraim,[fn] Put, and Canaan.

“LORD God, let your promise to my father David now come true. For you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

In Judah, it was said:[fn]

The strength of the laborer fails,

since there is so much rubble.

We will never be able

to rebuild the wall.

She abandons her eggs on the ground

and lets them be warmed in the sand.

may an enemy pursue and overtake me;

may he trample me to the ground

and leave my honor in the dust.Selah

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;

I trample them[fn] like mud in the streets.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

“What gain is there in my death,

if I go down to the Pit?

Will the dust praise you?

Will it proclaim your truth?

For we have sunk down to the dust;

our bodies cling to the ground.

May desert tribes kneel before him

and his enemies lick the dust.

He rained meat on them like dust,

and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

For your servants take delight in its stones

and favor its dust.

For he knows what we are made of,

remembering that we are dust.

When you hide your face,

they are terrified;

when you take away their breath,

they die and return to the dust.

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,

and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,

and the offspring of your body like its grains; 

their name would not be cut off

or eliminated from my presence.

Kings will be your guardians

and their queens[fn] your nursing mothers.

They will bow down to you

with their faces to the ground

and lick the dust at your feet.

Then you will know that I am the LORD;

those who put their hope in me

will not be put to shame.

“Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds[fn] from your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

The elders of Daughter Zion

sit on the ground in silence.

They have thrown dust on their heads

and put on sackcloth.

The young women of Jerusalem

have bowed their heads to the ground.

“They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

“They will take your wealth as spoil and plunder your merchandise. They will also demolish your walls and tear down your beautiful homes. Then they will throw your stones, timber, and soil into the water.

They trample the heads of the poor

on the dust of the ground

and obstruct the path of the needy.

A man and his father have sexual relations

with the same girl,

profaning my holy name.

They will lick the dust like a snake;

they will come trembling out of their hiding places

like reptiles slithering on the ground.

They will tremble in the presence of the LORD our God;

they will stand in awe of you.

I will bring distress on mankind,

and they will walk like the blind

because they have sinned against the LORD.

Their blood will be poured out like dust

and their flesh like dung.

Tyre has built herself a fortress;

she has heaped up silver like dust

and gold like the dirt of the streets.