# H6083 עָפָר

עָפָר (ʻâphâr), Strong’s H6083: dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud KJV: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.. Occurs 110 times.

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*ʻâphâr* — dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud

KJV: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.

Derived from [עָפַר ʻâphar](https://besorah.bible/word/H6080) (to be dust)

Occurs 110 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָפָר n.m. dry earth, dust

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=7) — The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became…
- [Genesis 3:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=14) — The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every…
- [Genesis 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=19) — You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are…
- [Genesis 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=16) — I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…
- [Genesis 18:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=27) — Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
- [Genesis 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=15) — Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped…
- [Genesis 28:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=14) — Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the…
- [Exodus 8:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=12) — The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice…
- [Exodus 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=13) — They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on…
- [Leviticus 14:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/14?v=41) — He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off…