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Lexicon :: Strong's H6083 - ʿāp̄ār

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עָפָר
Transliteration
ʿāp̄ār
Pronunciation
aw-fawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1664a

Strong’s Definitions

עָפָר ʻâphâr, aw-fawr'; from H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:—ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x

The KJV translates Strong's H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 110x
The KJV translates Strong's H6083 in the following manner: dust (93x), earth (7x), powder (3x), rubbish (2x), ashes (2x), morter (2x), ground (1x).

  1. dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish

    1. dry or loose earth

    2. debris

    3. mortar

    4. ore

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָפָר ʻâphâr, aw-fawr'; from H6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:—ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
STRONGS H6083: Abbreviations
† עָפָר noun masculineLeviticus 14:42 dry earth, dust; — absolute ע׳ Genesis 2:7 +, construct עֲפַר Genesis 13:16 +; suffix עֲפָרֵךְ Ezekiel 26:12, עֲפָרוֺ Deuteronomy 9:21, etc.; plural construct עַפְרֹת Job 28:6; Proverbs 8:26; —
1. literally:
a. dry, loose earth, thrown (in malice) 2 Samuel 16:13 (|| אֲבָנִים); עַלרֿאֹשׁ וַיַעֲלוּ ע׳ Joshua 7:6 (J E; sign of grief), so Ezekiel 27:30; Lamentations 2:10, and (with זָרַק) Job 2:12; loose earth (on surface of ground) 1 Kings 18:38; Amos 2:7; Micah 1:10; Isaiah 34:7, 9; Leviticus 17:13 (H) Ezekiel 24:7 (in figurative), Numbers 5:17; Job 14:19; Job 38:38; Job 39:14; Genesis 26:15 (R), made into siege works Habakkuk 1:10; of sand-storm Deuteronomy 28:24 (+ אָבָק); as serpent's food, token of punishment and humiliation, Genesis 3:14 (J) Isaiah 65:25 (compare Micah 7:17 2e below); זֹחֲלֵי ע׳ Deuteronomy 32:24 (poem; compare 2e).
b. specifically as material of human body Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:19 (J), Ecclesiastes 3:20, compare Job 4:19; Job 8:19; Psalm 103:14, to which it returns (שׁוּב אֶלֿ) Genesis 3:19; Job 10:9; Psalm 104:29; Ecclesiastes 3:20; so (with עַל) Job 34:15; Ecclesiastes 12:7.
c. = surface of ground Exodus 8:12; Exodus 8:13 (twice in verse); (P; הָאָרַץ ע׳), Job 19:25; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 26:5 (both || אֶרֶץ), surface of (whole) earth Job 41:25, מְחִלוֺת ע׳ Isaiah 2:19 (for hiding), so ע׳ alone Isaiah 2:10, compare חֹרֵי ע׳ Job 30:6; = soil, Job 5:6; Job 14:8.
d. powder of anything pulverized Deuteronomy 9:21 (twice in verse) (compare דָּ֑ק || Exodus 32:20), 2 Kings 23:6 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 23:12, 15, so in simile 2 Samuel 22:43 = Psalm 18:43, hence = ashes Psalm 18:4; Numbers 19:17.
e. debris, of ruined city 1 Kings 20:10; Ezekiel 26:4, 12; Nehemiah 3:34; Nehemiah 4:4; Psalm 102:15. The following are late:
f. earth of the grave: אֶשְׁכַּב לֶע׳ Job 7:21, so (with עַל) Job 20:11; Job 21:26, compare Job 17:16; יוֺרְדֵי ע׳ Psalm 22:30, שֹׁכְנֵי ע׳ Isaiah 26:19, יְשֵׁנֵי אַדְמַתעֿ׳ Daniel 12:2; עֲפַרמָֿוֶת Psalm 22:16; ע׳ in figure Psalm 30:10.
g. mortar (i.e. dried mud) for plastering houses Leviticus 14:41, 42, 45 (P).
h. (iron-) ore Job 28:2; עַפְרֹת זָהָב Job 28:6 gold-dust (but see סַמִּיר).
i. material of earth Isaiah 40:12, compare ראֹשׁ עַפְרֹת תֵּבֵל Proverbs 8:26 the first of the earth particles of the world.
2. figurative:
a. of abundance Genesis 13:16 (twice in verse); Genesis 28:14 (all J) 2 Chronicles 1:9; Job 27:16; Psalm 78:27 (|| חוֺל יַמִּים), compare עֲפַר יַעֲקֹב Numbers 23:10 (JE); with added idea of commonness, worthlessness Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 9:3.
b. of worthlessness (alone) Job 22:24.
c. simile of the scattered, dispersed 2 Kings 13:7; כֶּע׳ Isaiah 41:2 (so van d. H. Ginsb; Baer כֵּע׳; on meaning see Du Che, reading תְּשִׂימֵם for יִתֵּן).
d. of self-abasement Genesis 18:27 (+ אֵפַר), וְנִחַמְתִּי עַלעֿ׳ וָאֵפֶר Job 42:6, מִּיהוּ יִתֵּן בֶּע׳ Lamentations 3:29.
e. of humiliation (sitting or lying in dust) Isaiah 47:1; compare Isaiah 29:4 (twice in verse), Job 16:15; Job 40:13; Psalm 7:6; Psalm 44:26; Psalm 119:25, simile Job 30:19; licking dust Psalm 72:9; Isaiah 49:23; Micah 7:17, compare Tel Amarna tikalu ipra (of enemies, see WklAltor. Forsch. iii. 291; also of serpent 1a above); of י׳ raising from the dust 1 Samuel 2:8 = Psalm 113:7, 1 Kings 16:2; of lifting oneself Isaiah 52:2.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:7; 2:7; 3:14; 3:19; 3:19; 13:16; 13:16; 18:27; 26:15; 28:14

Exodus

8:12; 8:13; 32:20

Leviticus

14:41; 14:42; 14:42; 14:45; 17:13

Numbers

5:17; 19:17; 23:10

Deuteronomy

9:21; 9:21; 28:24; 32:24

Joshua

7:6

1 Samuel

2:8

2 Samuel

16:13; 22:43

1 Kings

16:2; 18:38; 20:10

2 Kings

13:7; 23:6; 23:12; 23:15

2 Chronicles

1:9

Nehemiah

4:4

Job

2:12; 4:19; 5:6; 7:21; 8:19; 10:9; 14:8; 14:19; 16:15; 17:16; 19:25; 20:11; 21:26; 22:24; 27:16; 28:2; 28:6; 28:6; 30:6; 30:19; 34:15; 38:38; 39:14; 40:13; 41:25; 42:6

Psalms

7:6; 18:4; 18:43; 22:16; 22:30; 30:10; 44:26; 72:9; 78:27; 102:15; 103:14; 104:29; 113:7; 119:25

Proverbs

8:26; 8:26

Ecclesiastes

3:20; 3:20; 12:7

Isaiah

2:10; 2:19; 25:12; 26:5; 26:19; 29:4; 34:7; 34:9; 40:12; 41:2; 47:1; 49:23; 52:2; 65:25

Lamentations

2:10; 3:29

Ezekiel

24:7; 26:4; 26:12; 26:12; 27:30

Daniel

12:2

Amos

2:7

Micah

1:10; 7:17; 7:17

Habakkuk

1:10

Zephaniah

1:7

Zechariah

9:3

H6083

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Strong's Number H6083 matches the Hebrew עָפָר (ʿāp̄ār),
which occurs 26 times in 26 verses in 'Job' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - Then they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, and they lifted up their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe, and they threw dust H6083 over their heads toward the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 -

‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,

Whose foundation is in the dust H6083,

Who are crushed before the moth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 -

“For wickedness does not come out from the dust H6083,

Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 -

“My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt H6083;

My skin scabs over and flows out again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 -

“Why then do You not forgive my transgression

And take away my iniquity?

For now I will lie down in the dust H6083;

And You will seek me earnestly, but I will not be.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 -

“Behold, this is the joy of [fn]His way;

And out of the dust H6083 others will spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 -

‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;

And would You turn me into dust H6083 again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 -

“Though its roots grow old in the ground

And its stump dies in the dry H6083 soil H6083,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 -

Water wears away stones;

Its torrents wash away the dust H6083 of the earth;

So You make man’s hope perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 -

“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin

And thrust my horn in the dust H6083.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:16 -

“[fn]Will it go down with me to Sheol?

Shall we together go down into the dust H6083?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25 -

“As for me, I know that my [fn]Redeemer lives,

And [fn]at the last He will rise up over the dust H6083 of this world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 -

“His bones are full of his youthful vigor,

But it lies down with him [fn]in the dust H6083.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 -

“Together they lie down in the dust H6083,

And worms cover them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 -

And put your [fn]gold in the dust H6083,

And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 -

“Though he piles up silver like dust H6083

And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 -

“Iron is taken from the dust H6083,

And copper is smelted from rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:6 -

“Its rocks are the [fn]source of sapphires,

And its dust H6083 contains gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:6 -

So that they dwell in the slopes of the [fn]valleys,

In holes of the dust H6083 and of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 -

“He has cast me into the mire,

And I have become like dust H6083 and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:15 -

All flesh would breathe its last together,

And man would return to dust H6083.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 -

When the dust H6083 hardens into a mass

And the clods stick together?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:14 -

For she leaves her eggs to the earth

And warms them in the dust H6083,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:13 -

“Hide them in the dust H6083 together;

Bind their faces in the hidden place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:33 -

“There is nothing upon the [fn]dust H6083 like it,

One made without terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:6 -

Therefore I reject myself,

And I repent in dust H6083 and ashes.”

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