Lexicon aphar: to throw dust Original Word: עָפַרPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aphar Phonetic Spelling: (aw-far') Short Definition: threw NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origindenominative verb from apharDefinitionto throw dust NASB Translationthrew (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ עָפַר] verb denominative Pi`el וְעִמַּר בֶּעָפָר 2 Samuel 16:13 and kept dusting (him) with dust (throwing [lumps of] dry earth at him). II. עפר (√ of following; compare Arabic young of mountain-goat, Late Hebrew עוֺפֶר young of animals).
Strong's cast dust : a primitive root: meaning either to be gray or perhaps rather to pulverize; used only as denominative from aphar, to be dust -- cast (dust). see HEBREW aphar |
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