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# עָפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6080

**and kept dusting** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

and kept dusting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6080/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָפַר: vb. denom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6080/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. וְעִפַּר בֶּעָפָר 2 S 16:13 and kept dusting (him) with dust (throwing \[lumps of\] dry earth at him).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he dusted \[them\] (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 16:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.13/#tree)

וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ דָּוִ֛ד וַאֲנָשָׁ֖יו בַּדָּ֑רֶךְס וְשִׁמְעִ֡י הֹלֵךְ֩ בְּצֵ֨לַע הָהָ֜ר לְעֻמָּת֗וֹ הָלוֹךְ֙ וַיְקַלֵּ֔ל וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙ לְעֻמָּת֔וֹ וְעִפַּ֖ר בֶּעָפָֽר׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.went David and men his on the road and Shimei \[was\].going on the.side of the.mountain parallel with him he.went and he.cursed and he.stoned.\[them\] with (the) stones parallel with him and he.dusted.\[them\] with (the) dust

*JPS 1917:* So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6080.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6080/): 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).