Lexicon choos: dust. Original Word: χοῦς, χοός, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: choos Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-os) Short Definition: dust Definition: earth, soil, dust. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originsee chous. Thayer's STRONGS NT 5522: χὠςχὠς, see χοῦς. STRONGS NT 5522: χοῦςχοῦς, χὠς, accusative χοῦν, ὁ (contracted for χὠς, from χέω, to pour), from Herodotus down; 1. properly, earth dug out, an earth-heap (German Schutt): ὁ χοῦς ὁ ἐξορυχθεις, Herodotus 2, 150. 2. dust (the Sept. for עָפָר): Mark 6:11; Revelation 18:19 ((Joshua 7:11; Wis. 5:15; Sir. 44:21, etc.); Plutarch, mor., p. 1096 b. (i. e. non posse suaviter etc. 13, 7)).
Strong's dust. From the base of cheimon; a heap (as poured out), i.e. Rubbish; loose dirt -- dust. see GREEK cheimon |
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