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In the Bible, "dust" is a significant term that appears frequently throughout the Scriptures, symbolizing various theological and existential themes. It is often associated with creation, mortality, humility, and repentance.

Creation and Mortality

The concept of dust is introduced in the creation narrative in Genesis. God forms man from the dust of the ground, highlighting humanity's humble origins and connection to the earth. Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." This verse underscores the dual nature of humanity, being both physical (dust) and spiritual (breath of life).

The theme of mortality is further emphasized in Genesis 3:19 , where God pronounces the curse after the Fall: "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground, because out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." This passage serves as a reminder of human frailty and the inevitability of death, reinforcing the transient nature of life.

Humility and Repentance

Dust is also a symbol of humility and repentance in the Bible. In the ancient Near Eastern culture, sitting in dust or covering oneself with dust was a common expression of mourning, penitence, or submission. Job, in his suffering, uses this imagery to express his lowly state: "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You. Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5-6).

Similarly, in the book of Jonah, the king of Nineveh demonstrates repentance by sitting in dust: "When word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes" (Jonah 3:6). This act signifies a turning away from sin and a plea for divine mercy.

Divine Sovereignty and Promise

Dust is also used metaphorically to illustrate God's sovereignty and the fulfillment of His promises. In Genesis 13:16 , God promises Abraham, "I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted." This promise signifies the vastness and innumerability of Abraham's descendants, highlighting God's power to fulfill His covenant.

Furthermore, dust is used to depict the insignificance of nations before God. Isaiah 40:15 declares, "Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust." This imagery emphasizes God's supreme authority over all creation and the relative smallness of human endeavors.

Judgment and Restoration

In prophetic literature, dust often symbolizes judgment and desolation. For instance, in Lamentations 2:10 , the elders of Zion sit on the ground in silence, covering themselves with dust as a sign of the city's destruction: "The elders of the Daughter of 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."

Conversely, dust can also signify restoration and renewal. In Isaiah 52:2 , the call to rise from the dust is a metaphor for redemption and deliverance: "Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion."

In summary, the biblical use of dust encompasses a wide range of meanings, from creation and mortality to humility, repentance, divine promise, judgment, and restoration. It serves as a powerful symbol that reflects the human condition and God's interaction with His creation.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Dust

[MOURNING]

ATS Bible Dictionary

Dust

Joshua 7:6. Dust or ashes put upon the head was a sign of mourning; sitting in the dust, a sign of affliction, La 3:29 Isaiah 47:1. "Dust" is also put for the grave, Genesis 3:19 Job 7:21. It signifies a multitude, Genesis 13:16, and a low and mean condition, 1 Samuel 2:8. We have two remarkable instances of casting dust recorded in Scripture, and they seem to illustrate a practice common in Asia: those who demanded justice against a criminal were accustomed to throw dust upon him, signifying that he deserved to be cast into the grave. Shimei cast dust upon David when he fled from Jerusalem, 2 Samuel 16:13. The Jews treated the apostle Paul in a similar manner in the same city: "They cried out, �Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.- And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle," Acts 22:22-24. To shake off the dust of the feet against another was expressive of entire renunciation, Matthew 10:14 Mark 6:11 Acts 13:51. The threatening of God, recorded in De 28:24, "The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed," means that instead of fertilizing rains, clouds of fine dust, raised from the parched ground and driven by fierce and burning winds, shall fill the air. Of such a rain of dust, famine and disease would be the natural attendants. See WIND.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers. They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. Jehovah threatens to bring on the land of Israel, as a punishment for forsaking him, a rain of "powder and dust" (Deuteronomy 28:24).

To cast dust on the head was a sign of mourning (Joshua 7:6); and to sit in dust, of extreme affliction (Isaiah 47:1). "Dust" is used to denote the grave (Job 7:21). "To shake off the dust from one's feet" against another is to renounce all future intercourse with him (Matthew 10:14; Acts 13:51). To "lick the dust" is a sign of abject submission (Psalm 72:9); and to throw dust at one is a sign of abhorrence (2 Samuel 16:13; Comp. Acts 22:23).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

2. (n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.

3. (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

4. (n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

5. (n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.

6. (n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

7. (n.) Gold dust

8. (n.) Coined money; cash.

9. (v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

10. (v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.

11. (v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DUST

dust (`aphar; koniortos, chous): Small particles of earth. The word has several figurative and symbolic meanings:

(1) Dust being the material out of which God is said to have formed man (Genesis 2:7), it became a symbol of man's frailty (Psalm 103:14, "For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust"; compare Genesis 18:27 Job 4:19, etc.), and of his mortality (Genesis 3:19, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"; compare Job 34:15 Psalm 104:29 Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:7, etc.) Hence, it is used figuratively for the grave (Psalm 22:15, 29; Psalm 30:9 Daniel 12:2).

(2) Such actions as to lie in the dust, to lick the dust, to sprinkle dust on the head, are symbols expressive of deep humiliation, abasement or lamentation (e.g. Job 2:12; Job 42:6, Psalm 72:9 Isaiah 2:10; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 49:23 Lamentations 2:10; Lamentations 3:29 Ezekiel 27:30; Micah 7:17 Revelation 18:19). Hence, such expressions as "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust," i.e. out of their state of lowliness (1 Samuel 2:8 Psalm 113:7).

(3) Throwing dust was an act expressive of execration. Thus, Shimei "cursed" David and "threw stones at him, and cast dust," literally, "dusted (him) with dust" (2 Samuel 16:13). So the crowd which Paul addressed at Jerusalem manifested their wrath against him by tossing about their garments and casting dust into the air (Acts 22:23).

(4) Shaking the dust off one's feet against anyone (Matthew 10:14 Mark 6:11 Luke 9:5; Luke 10:11 Acts 13:51) is symbolic of renunciation, as we would say "washing one's hands of him," an intimation that all further intercourse was at an end. It was practiced by the Pharisees on passing from Gentileto Jewish soil, it being a rabbinical doctrine that the dust of a heathen land defiles.

(5) It is also used figuratively for an innumerable multitude (e.g. Genesis 13:16; Genesis 28:14 Job 27:16 Psalm 78:27).

(6) The expression "Yahweh will make the rain of thy land powder and dust" (Deuteronomy 28:24) means the dust in consequence of the drought shall fall down instead of rain on the dry ground. In Judea and vicinity during a sirocco, the air becomes filled with sand and dust, which are blown down by the wind with great violence.

D. Miall Edwards

Greek

2868. koniortos -- dust
... koniortos. 2869 . dust. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: koniortos
Phonetic Spelling: (kon-ee-or-tos') Short Definition: dust Definition: dust ...
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5517. choikos -- earthy, made of dust
... earthy, made of dust. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: choikos Phonetic
Spelling: (kho-ik-os') Short Definition: earthy, made of earth Definition ...
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5522. choos -- dust.
... dust. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: choos Phonetic Spelling:
(kho'-os) Short Definition: dust Definition: earth, soil, dust. ... dust. ...
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3039. likmao -- to winnow, to scatter
... Word Origin from likmos (a winnowing fan) Definition to winnow, to scatter NASB
Word Usage like dust (2), scatter...like dust (2). grind to powder. ...
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2867. koniao -- to plaster over
... Word Origin from konia (dust) Definition to plaster over NASB Word Usage whitewashed
(2). ... From konia (dust; by analogy, lime); to whitewash -- whiten. ...
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5529b. chous -- earth, soil
... earth, soil. Transliteration: chous Short Definition: dust. Word Origin contr. of
a derivation of cheo (to pour) Definition earth, soil NASB Word Usage dust (2) ...
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4917. sunthlao -- to crush together
... 4917 (from 4862 , "together " and , "crush") -- properly, pulverize, crushing
parts into dust (note the ). 4917 ("to break in pieces ...
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850. auchmeros -- to boast
... 850 -- properly, dry ("dried out") from strong heat, producing dust (parched dirt);
(figuratively) , filled with extraneous filth () which impede vision ...
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1249. diakonos -- a servant, minister
... 1249 (from 1223 , "thoroughly" and , "dust") -- properly, "thoroughly raise up dust
by moving in a hurry, and so to " (, 1, 162); (sacred service). ...
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1247. diakoneo -- to serve, minister
... serve (generally). Cognate: 1247 (from 1249 ) -- serve -- literally,
"kicking up dust" because "on the move." See 1249 (). 1247 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6083. aphar -- dry earth, dust
... 6082, 6083. aphar. 6084 . dry earth, dust. Transliteration: aphar Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-fawr') Short Definition: dust. Word Origin ...
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80. abaq -- dust
... 79, 80. abaq. 81 . dust. Transliteration: abaq Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-bawk') Short Definition: dust. Word Origin from the same as ...
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6080. aphar -- to throw dust
... 6079, 6080. aphar. 6081 . to throw dust. Transliteration: aphar Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-far') Short Definition: threw. ... cast dust. ...
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7834. shachaq -- dust, cloud
... 7833, 7834. shachaq. 7835 . dust, cloud. Transliteration: shachaq Phonetic
Spelling: (shakh'-ak) Short Definition: skies. ... cloud, small dust, heaven, sky. ...
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1793b. dakka -- dust (as pulverized)
... dust (as pulverized). Transliteration: dakka Short Definition: dust. Word Origin
from daka Definition dust (as pulverized) NASB Word Usage dust (1). ...
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1036. Beth Leaphrah -- "house to dust," a place in Palestine
... "house to dust," a place in Palestine. Transliteration: Beth Leaphrah Phonetic
Spelling: (bayth le-af-raw') Short Definition: Beth-le-aphrah. ...
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1854. daqaq -- to crush, pulverize, thresh
... thresh (1), very fine (1). beat in pieces small, bruise, make dust, into powder,
be, very small, stamp small. A primitive root (compare ...
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4292. matate -- broom, besom
... besom. Apparently a denominative from tiyt; a broom (as removing dirt (compare Engl.
"to dust", ie Remove dust)) -- besom. see HEBREW tiyt. 4291, 4292. ...
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1534. galgal -- a wheel, whirl, whirlwind
... Word Origin from galal Definition a wheel, whirl, whirlwind NASB Word Usage wagons
(2), wheel (1), wheels (2), whirling dust (2), whirling wheels (3 ...
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776. erets -- earth, land
... Definition earth, land NASB Word Usage common (1), countries (15), countries and
their lands (1), country (44), countryside (1), distance* (3), dust (1), earth ...
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Library

Out of the Dust.
... THE SOUL. XX. OUT OF THE DUST. O clyw fy ngwaedd, a gw?�l fy ngwedd 8,8,8,8. ... Whose
cry on earth was often this? Here in the dust how deep their groans,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/morris/favourite welsh hymns/xx out of the dust.htm

How the Dust of that Place Prevailed against Fire. [After 642 AD ]
... BOOK III CHAP. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire. [After
642 AD]. ABOUT the same time, another traveller, a Briton ...
/.../bede/bedes ecclesiastical history of england/chap x how the dust.htm

Dust to Dust
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCXCIII DUST TO DUST. Oh blessing, wearing
semblance of a curse, We fear thee, thou stern sentence!"yet to be. ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/ccxciii dust to dust.htm

"The Dust of the Actual"
... CHAPTER VII "The Dust of the Actual". ... "=It takes the Ideal to blow a hair's-breadth
off the Dust of the Actual.=". It takes more. It takes =God=. ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter vii the dust of.htm

Whether Christ's Body was Reduced to Dust in the Tomb?
... OF CHRIST'S BURIAL (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether Christ's body was reduced to
dust in the tomb? Objection 1: It would seem that Christ's ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christs body was reduced.htm

Saviour, when in Dust to Thee
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCXLIII Saviour, when in dust to Thee.
Low we bend the adoring knee; When repentant to the skies. ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/ccxliii saviour when in dust.htm

But Unbelievers Cry, "How Can the Flesh, which Has Been Putrified ...
... But unbelievers cry, "How can the flesh, which has been putrified and dissolved,
or changed into dust, sometimes also swallowed up by the sea, and dispersed by ...
/.../42 but unbelievers cry how.htm

That He Descended into Hell is Also Evidently Foretold in the ...
... 28. That He descended into hell is also evidently foretold in the Psalms, where
it is said, "Thou hast brought Me also into the dust of the death." And again ...
/.../28 that he descended into.htm

Savior! when in Dust to Thee
... II. THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Ash Wednesday and Lent 130. Savior! when in dust to thee.
Eight 7's ... Alt. Savior! when in dust to thee. Low we bow the adoring knee; ...
/.../ash wednesday and lent 130.htm

A Funeral Oration.
... of spring, the pride and glory of summer, we are rudely torn away, the sport of
destiny, to return to the elements of nature from which we spring"dust to dust ...
/.../a funeral oration.htm

Thesaurus

Dust (182 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern
travellers. They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. ...
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Earth (10501 Occurrences)
... God created the heavens and the earth." `Aphar and its root word and derivatives
are closely paralleled in the Arabic, and refer mainly to "dust" or "dry earth ...
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Dusty (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust;
clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. ...
/d/dusty.htm - 7k

Worms (14 Occurrences)
... Matthew 6:19 Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned
to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and ...
/w/worms.htm - 10k

Dirt (9 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering
to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt ...
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Powder (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding,
grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. ...
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Beth-le-aphrah (1 Occurrence)
Beth-le-aphrah. Beth-leaphrah, Beth-le-aphrah. Beth-le-aph'rah . Easton's
Bible Dictionary (RV Micah 1:10), house of dust. The ...
/b/beth-le-aphrah.htm - 7k

Rolling (32 Occurrences)
... translation of galgal, "revolving thing," "wheel" (Ecclesiastes 12:6). the Revised
Version (British and American) "like the whirling dust before the storm" is ...
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Mud (15 Occurrences)
... (DBY NIV). 2 Samuel 22:43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. ... Job
30:19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. ...
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Bethleaphrah
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (RV Micah 1:10), house of dust. The Authorized
Version reads "in the house of Aphrah." This is probably ...
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Resources

What does it mean that Job repented in dust and ashes? | GotQuestions.org

Why did God make man out of the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7)? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean to shake the dust off your feet? | GotQuestions.org

Dust: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Dust (182 Occurrences)

Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
(BBE)

Matthew 6:20
But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
(BBE)

Matthew 7:3
And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?
(BBE NIV)

Matthew 7:4
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?
(BBE)

Matthew 7:5
You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.
(BBE)

Matthew 10:14
Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
(WEB ASV BBE NAS)

Mark 6:11
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 6:41
And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?
(BBE NIV)

Luke 6:42
How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.
(BBE)

Luke 9:5
As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:11
'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:13
A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.
(BBE)

Luke 20:18
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
(WEB ASV BBE NAS)

John 9:6
After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,
(WEY)

Acts 13:51
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 22:23
As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
(WEB DBY RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:48
As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
(WEB DBY RSV)

1 Corinthians 15:49
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let's also bear the image of the heavenly.
(WEB DBY RSV)

Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:
(BBE)

Revelation 18:19
They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying,'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 2:7
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 3:14
Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 26:15
and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.
(YLT)

Genesis 28:14
Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 8:16
Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron,'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 8:17
They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 9:8
And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take in your hand a little dust from the fire and let Moses send it in a shower up to heaven before the eyes of Pharaoh.
(BBE)

Exodus 9:9
It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 9:10
So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.
(BBE)

Exodus 27:3
And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.
(BBE)

Leviticus 14:41
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
(KJV WBS)

Leviticus 17:13
"'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 5:17
and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 14:33
And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
(BBE)

Numbers 19:9
Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.
(BBE)

Numbers 19:10
And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.
(BBE)

Numbers 19:17
And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:
(BBE)

Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 9:21
I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
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Deuteronomy 28:24
Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
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Joshua 7:6
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.
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1 Samuel 4:12
There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
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2 Samuel 1:2
it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 13:19
And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 15:32
Now when David had come to the top of the slope, where they gave worship to God, Hushai the Archite came to him in great grief with dust on his head:
(BBE NAS NIV)

2 Samuel 16:13
So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
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2 Samuel 19:18
And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,
(BBE)

2 Samuel 22:43
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
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1 Kings 16:2
"Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
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1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of Yahweh 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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1 Kings 20:10
Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."
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2 Kings 13:7
For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
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2 Kings 23:4
Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.
(BBE)

2 Kings 23:6
He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
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2 Kings 23:12
The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
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2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
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2 Chronicles 1:9
Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
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2 Chronicles 15:16
Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
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2 Chronicles 34:4
They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
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2 Chronicles 34:7
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
(BBE)

Nehemiah 4:2
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
(BBE NAS)

Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
(BBE NIV)

Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.
(BBE)

Esther 4:3
And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.
(BBE)

Job 2:8
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
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Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
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Job 4:19
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
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Job 5:6
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
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Job 8:19
Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.
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Job 9:31
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
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Job 10:9
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
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Job 13:12
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
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Job 14:8
Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
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Job 14:18
But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
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Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
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Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
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Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
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Job 19:25
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
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Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
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Job 21:26
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
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Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
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Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
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Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the dust, and copper is molten out of the stone.
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Job 28:6
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
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Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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Job 34:15
all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
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Job 38:38
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
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Job 39:14
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
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Job 40:13
Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
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Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
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Psalms 1:4
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Dust

Dust: Casting of, in Anger

Dust: Man Made From

Dust: Put on the Head in Mourning

Dust: Shaking from Feet

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