Aphar עָפָר

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Aphar
עָפָר
Transliterationaphar
Strong's numberH6083
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossdust
Occurrences110 in 103 verses
Most frequent inJob (26)

Aphar (Hebrew עָפָר, Strong's H6083) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “dust”. It occurs 110 times in 103 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish
1a) dry or loose earth
1b) debris
1c) mortar
1d) ore

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVdust (93), earth (7), powder (3), morter (2), ashes (2), rubbish (2), ground (1)
BSBdust (61), like dust (5), soil (4), like the dust (3), powder (3), earth (3), dirt (2), plaster (2), rubble (2), ground (2), out of the dust (2), am but dust (1), and 20 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Aphar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Amos

Micah

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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