χοῦς

Where this word appears

A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where χοῦς appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 49 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 2:7 χοῦς 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 χοῦς And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
• Deuteronomy 28:24 χοῦς The Lord your God make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed you, and until it shall have quickly consumed you.
• Joshua 7:6 χοῦς 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 Samuel 16:13 χοῦς And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Semei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.
• 1 Kings 18:38 χοῦς 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.
• 2 Kings 13:7 χοῦς Whereas there was not left any army to Joachaz, 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.
• 2 Chronicles 1:9 χοῦς And now, O Lord God, let, I pray you, your name be established upon David my father; for you have made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.
• Ezra 14:4 χοῦς
• Job 39:14 χοῦς for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
• Psalms 7:6 χοῦς Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.
• Ecclesiastes 3:20 χοῦς All go to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust.
• Isaiah 48:19 χοῦς Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish before me.
• Lamentations 2:10 χοῦς JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 26:4 χοῦς And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down your towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.
• Amos 2:7 χοῦς wherewith to tread on the dust of the earth, and they have struck upon the heads of the poor, and have perverted the way of the lowly: and a son and his father have gone into the same maid, that they might profane the name of their God.
• Micah 7:17 χοῦς 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 you.
• Zephaniah 1:17 χοῦς 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 χοῦς And Tyrus built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.