Strong's #6083: `aphar (pronounced aw-fawr')
from 6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:--ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âphâr
1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish
1a) dry or loose earth
1b) debris
1c) mortar
1d) ore
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6080
Usage:
This word is used 110 times:
Ezekiel 26:4: "and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock."
Ezekiel 26:12: "and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water."
Ezekiel 27:30: "thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:"
Daniel 12:2: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting"
Amos 2:7: "That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way"
Micah 1:10: "weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust."
Micah 7:17: "They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth:"
Habakkuk 1:10: "every stronghold; for they shall heap dust, and take"
Zephaniah 1:17: "against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung."
Zechariah 9:3: "herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets."
