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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)).
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 Box Gen 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:42

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin:[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD 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 Box 1Ki 20:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 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 out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces[fn] and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,[fn] reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - In Judah it was said,[fn] “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 - For she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5 - let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him trample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:42

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - “What profit is there in my death,[fn]
if I go down to the pit?[fn]
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our belly clings to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 - May desert tribes bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - he rained meat on them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - For your servants hold her stones dear
and have pity on her dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14 - For he knows our frame;[fn]
he remembers that we are dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29 - When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD;
those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - The elders of the daughter of 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and turn aside the way of the afflicted;
a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God,
and they shall be in fear of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk like the blind,
because they have sinned against the LORD;
their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh like dung.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a rampart
and heaped up silver like dust,
and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
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