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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 BoxGen 2:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush was the father[fn] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42 - Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah[fn] and an honest hin.[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD, remaining there till evening. The elders of Israel did the same, and sprinkled dust on their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing stones at him and showering him with dirt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough dust remains in Samaria to give each of my men a handful.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush was the father[fn] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 - She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:5 - then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them[fn] like mud in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - My mouth[fn] is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - “What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25 - We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14 - for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7 - and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled 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 BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - “I will bring such distress on all people that they will grope about like those who are blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a stronghold; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
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