2001 Translation

CHOUN, choun

Sounds Like: KHOON

Translations: dust, earth, dirt, a dust, an earth, a dirt

From the root: ΧΟΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to fine, dry particles of earth or other matter. It is often used in contexts describing the ground, the act of throwing dust, or as a symbol of humility, mourning, or destruction. For example, it can describe the ground one walks on, or the dust that is thrown upon one's head as a sign of grief.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5522 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:64

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 2:63
• Psalms — 7:6, 21:16, 43:26, 71:9, 101:15, 103:29
• Job — 39:14
• Sirach — 44:21
• Isaiah — 52:2
• Zephaniah — 1:17
• Mark — 6:11
• Revelation — 18:19

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:192

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:34, 14:237
• Book 14 — 4:64

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Seven — 8:61

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 34:4, 34:7, 98:4, 104:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:7
• Leviticus — 14:41, 14:42, 14:45
• Joshua — 7:6
• 1 Kings — 18:38
• 2 Kings — 13:7, 23:4, 23:6, 23:12, 23:15
• 1 Maccabees — 2:63
• Psalms — 7:6, 21:16, 43:26, 71:9, 77:27, 101:15, 103:29
• Ecclesiastes — 3:20
• Job — 31:24, 39:14
• Sirach — 44:21
• Isaiah — 49:23, 52:2
• Lamentations — 2:10
• Ezekiel — 26:4, 26:12
• Amos — 2:7
• Micah — 7:17
• Zephaniah — 1:17
• Zechariah — 9:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 6:11
• Revelation — 18:19

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΟΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΧΟΥΣ — dust, earth, soil, a dust, a clod
• ΧΟΥΣΑΙΟΝ — Cushite, a Cushite, Ethiopian, an Ethiopian

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