עָפָר

a.phar

Hebrew H6083 Noun, masculine 110 occurrences in 103 verses
עָפָר dust

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

a. dry or loose earth

b. debris

c. mortar

d. ore

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Concordance 103 verses

  1. Genesis 2:7 עָפָר֙

    Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

  2. Genesis 3:14 וְעָפָ֥ר

    So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

  3. Genesis 3:19 עָפָ֣רעָפָ֖ר

    By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

  4. Genesis 13:16 כַּעֲפַ֣רעֲפַ֣ר

    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.

  5. Genesis 18:27 עָפָ֥ר

    Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

  6. Genesis 26:15 עָפָֽר׃

    So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

  7. Genesis 28:14 כַּעֲפַ֣ר

    Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

  8. Exodus 8:16 עֲפַ֣ר

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”

  9. Exodus 8:17 עֲפַ֣רעֲפַ֥ר

    This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

  10. Leviticus 14:41 הֶֽעָפָר֙

    And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.

  11. Leviticus 14:42 וְעָפָ֥ר

    So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.

  12. Leviticus 14:45 עֲפַ֣ר

    It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

  13. Leviticus 17:13 בֶּעָפָֽר׃

    And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

  14. Numbers 5:17 הֶֽעָפָ֗ר

    Then he is to take some holy water in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

  15. Numbers 19:17 מֵעֲפַ֖ר

    For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

  16. Numbers 23:10 עֲפַ֣ר

    Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

  17. Deuteronomy 9:21 לְעָפָ֑רעֲפָר֔וֹ

    And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

  18. Deuteronomy 28:24 וְעָפָ֑ר

    The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

  19. Deuteronomy 32:24 עָפָֽר׃

    They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

  20. Joshua 7:6 עָפָ֖ר

    Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.

  21. 1 Samuel 2:8 מֵעָפָ֜ר

    He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

  22. 2 Samuel 16:13 בֶּעָפָֽר׃פ

    So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.

  23. 2 Samuel 22:43 כַּעֲפַר־

    I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

  24. 1 Kings 16:2 הֶ֣עָפָ֔ר

    “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.

  25. 1 Kings 18:38 הֶעָפָ֑ר

    Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.

  26. 1 Kings 20:10 עֲפַ֣ר

    Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”

  27. 2 Kings 13:7 כֶּֽעָפָ֖ר

    Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

  28. 2 Kings 23:4 עֲפָרָ֖ם

    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

  29. 2 Kings 23:6 לְעָפָ֑רעֲפָרָ֔הּ

    He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

  30. 2 Kings 23:12 עֲפָרָ֖ם

    He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

  31. 2 Kings 23:15 לְעָפָ֖ר

    He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

  32. 2 Chronicles 1:9 כַּעֲפַ֥ר

    Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

  33. Nehemiah 4:2 הֶעָפָ֖ר

    before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

  34. Nehemiah 4:10 וְהֶעָפָ֖ר

    Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”

  35. Job 2:12 עָפָ֛ר

    When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

  36. Job 4:19 בֶּעָפָ֥ר

    how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

  37. Job 5:6 מֵעָפָ֣ר

    For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

  38. Job 7:5 עָפָ֑ר

    My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

  39. Job 7:21 לֶעָפָ֣ר

    Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

  40. Job 8:19 וּ֝מֵעָפָ֗ר

    Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

  41. Job 10:9 עָפָ֥ר

    Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

  42. Job 14:8 וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר

    If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

  43. Job 14:19 עֲפַר־

    as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

  44. Job 16:15 בֶעָפָ֣ר

    I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

  45. Job 17:16 עָפָ֣ר

    Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

  46. Job 19:25 עָפָ֥ר

    But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

  47. Job 20:11 עָפָ֥ר

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  48. Job 21:26 עָפָ֣ר

    But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

  49. Job 22:24 עָפָ֥ר

    and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

  50. Job 27:16 כֶּעָפָ֣ר

    Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

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