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# אָבָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H80

**dust** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/80/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבָק: n.m. dust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/80/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 26:10 dust—א׳ Dt 28:24 + 3 textual; cstr. אֲבַק Na 1:3; sf. אֲבָקָם Ez 26:10—dust (?fleeing, flying; syn. עָפָר = oft. dust lying on or composing ground) Ex 9:9 Ez 26:10 Dt 28:24 (‖ עָפָר) Is 5:24 (‖ מָק) 29:5 (‖ מֹץ); fig. of clouds under Yahweh’s feet Na 1:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dust (5); \[are\] the dust (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.24/#tree)

יִתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־מְטַ֥ר אַרְצְךָ֖ אָבָ֣ק וְעָפָ֑ר מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ יֵרֵ֣ד עָלֶ֔יךָ עַ֖ד הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.make Yahweh (et) the.rain your.land your dust and dust from the heavens it.will.come.down on you until you are.destroyed

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

[Isaiah 29:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.5/#tree)

וְהָיָ֛ה כְּאָבָ֥ק דַּ֖ק הֲמ֣וֹן זָרָ֑יִךְ וּכְמֹ֤ץ עֹבֵר֙ הֲמ֣וֹן עָֽרִיצִ֔ים וְהָיָ֖ה לְפֶ֥תַע פִּתְאֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be like dust fine the.multitude of your.strangers and \[will be\].like.chaff \[which\].passes.away the.multitude of.ruthless.\[people\] and it.will.happen to suddenness suddenly

*JPS 1917:* But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/80.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/80/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).