Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
dust
Usage: χοῦς, -οός accusative, οῦν, ὁ, (contr. from χόος), [in LXX chiefly for עָפָר ;] __1. earth, soil. __2. In later writers (Pint., LXX), = κονιορτός, dust: Mrk.6:11, Rev.18:19.† (AS)
Choos means “dust” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5522 — cikkuth (“tabernacle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5522 χόος (choos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. choos (khoh'-os) n. 1. a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish, loose dirt [from the base of G5494] It has 45 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include dust. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
choos (khoh'-os) n. 1. a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish, loose dirt [from the base of G5494] KJV: dust Root(s): G5494
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dust
Usage: χοῦς, -οός accusative, οῦν, ὁ, (contr. from χόος), [in LXX chiefly for עָפָר ;] __1. earth, soil. __2. In later writers (Pint., LXX), = κονιορτός, dust: Mrk.6:11, Rev.18:19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render choos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5522 (χόος) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
41 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
To day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.
Therefore he assured him by an oath, That he would bless the nations in his seed, And that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, And exalt his seed as the stars, And cause them to inherit from sea to sea, And from the river unto the utmost part of the land.
First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5522.
And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.
There shall be among you just balances and just weights and a just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.
And Joshua tore his garments; and Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.
And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Shimei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.
And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
Then fire fell from the Lord out of heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings, and the wood and the water that was in the trench, and the fire licked up the stones and the earth.
And the son of Hadad sent to him, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for foxes to all the people, even my infantry.
Whereas there was not left any army to Jehoahaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the ashes of them to Bethel.
And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and reduced it to powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchers of the sons of the people.
And 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 the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kidron.
Also the high altar in Bethel, which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burned the grove.
And now, O Lord God, let, I pray thee, thy name be established upon David my father; for thou hast made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
For the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, And warm them on the dust,
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; And let him trample my life on the ground, And lay my glory in the dust. Pause.
I will grind them as the mud of the streets: And I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue is glued to my throat; And thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.
What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? Or shall it declare thy truth?
For our soul has been brought down to the dust; Our belly has cloven to the earth.
The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, And they shall pity her dust.
For he knows our frame: Remember that we are dust.
But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: Thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, And return to their dust.
All go to one place; All were formed of the dust, And all will return to dust.
Before the dust also return to the earth as it was, And the spirit return to God who gave it.
Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish before me.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.
Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion.
The elders of the daughter of Zion Have sat upon the ground, They have kept silence: They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: They have brought down to the ground The chief virgins in Jerusalem.
And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.
And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea.
wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have smitten upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone in to the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.
And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.
And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
To day he shall be lifted up, and tomorrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.
Therefore he assured him by an oath, That he would bless the nations in his seed, And that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, And exalt his seed as the stars, And cause them to inherit from sea to sea, And from the river unto the utmost part of the land.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5522, grouped by book.
Choos (Strong's G5522) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dust". choos (khoh'-os) n. 1. a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish, loose dirt [from the base of G5494]
This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G5522 across 23 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5522 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dust. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 41 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5522, with linked reader references where each row is available.