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Strong's G5522 χόος (choos)

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 Number G5522
Language Greek
Linked Usages 45
Books 23

Strong's G5522 Quick Answer

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.

Meaning
choos (khoh'-os) n. 1. a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish, loose dirt [from the base of G5494]
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
dust

Meaning and Definition

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

Original Word
χόος
Transliteration
choos
Derivation
Root: χειμών R1: 5494
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5522. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

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)

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How Strong's G5522 Is Translated

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.

dust Mark 6:11

How Strong's G5522 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5522 (χόος) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5522 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G5522 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 6:11 KJV

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.

Revelation 18:19 KJV

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.

Strong's G5522 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 2:7 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Leviticus 14:41 Septuagint / Brenton

And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:42 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Strong's G5522 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 2:63 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Wisdom of Sirach 44:21 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5522.

Genesis 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Leviticus 14:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Leviticus 14:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Leviticus 19:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Deuteronomy 28:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Joshua 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 22:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
3 Kingdoms 18:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
3 Kingdoms 21:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Chronicles 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Nehemiah 4:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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:
Job 39:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, And warm them on the dust,
Psalms 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Psalms 17:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will grind them as the mud of the streets: And I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
Psalms 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Psalms 29:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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?
Psalms 43:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For our soul has been brought down to the dust; Our belly has cloven to the earth.
Psalms 71:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalms 77:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
Psalms 101:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, And they shall pity her dust.
Psalms 102:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he knows our frame: Remember that we are dust.
Psalms 103:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All go to one place; All were formed of the dust, And all will return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the dust also return to the earth as it was, And the spirit return to God who gave it.
Isaiah 48:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Isaiah 49:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Isaiah 52:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Zion.
Lamentations 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Ezekiel 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Ezekiel 26:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Amos 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Micah 7:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Zephaniah 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Zechariah 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
Mark 6:11 New Testament, KJV
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.
Revelation 18:19 New Testament, KJV
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.
1 Maccabees 2:63 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Wisdom of Sirach 44:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5522, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5522 FAQ

What does choos (χόος) mean?

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]

How many times is choos (χόος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G5522 across 23 books.

Where can I study choos (χόος) in context?

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.

What English words translate choos (χόος)?

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.

Does Strong's G5522 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

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.