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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 man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and 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, Hav'ilah, Sabtah, Ra'amah, and Sab'teca. The sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour into an unclean place outside the city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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 BoxLev 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 forth out of the city to an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: 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 will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men went on the road, while Shim'e-i 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 Box2Sa 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 Box1Ki 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 Box1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Ben-ha'dad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Sama'ria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For there was not left to Jeho'ahaz 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 Box2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilki'ah, 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 Ba'al, for Ashe'rah, 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 Box2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Ashe'rah 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 Box2Ki 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 which Manas'seh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust; also he burned the Ashe'rah.

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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, Hav'ilah, Sabta, Ra'ama, and Sab'teca. The sons of Ra'amah: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be now fulfilled, for thou hast made me king over a people as many as the dust of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - But Judah said, "The strength of the burden-bearers is failing, and there is much rubbish; we are not able to work on the wall."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 BoxPsa 7:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 BoxPsa 22:15

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:9 - "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:25

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:29 - When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die 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 are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 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 BoxIsa 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 BoxIsa 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 BoxIsa 52:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:10 - The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have cast dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 BoxEze 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of 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 BoxAmo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - they that 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 maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 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 fear because of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - I will bring distress on men, 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 BoxZec 9:3

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