STRONGS NUMBER H6080

Word Summary

aphar: to throw dust

Original Word: עָפַר
Transliteration: aphar
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-far')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw dust
Meaning: to throw dust

Strong's Concordance

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6080. aphar

[עָפַר‎] verb denominative Pi`el בֶּעָפָר וְעִמַּר‎ 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).

King James Bible