Quick Definition
to throw
Strong's Definition
to be dust
Derivation: ; a primitive root; meaning either to be gray or perhaps rather to pulverize; used only as denominative from H6083 (עָפָר),
KJV Usage: cast (dust).
TWOT Reference: 1664
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) (Piel) to dust, powder
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָפַר (a.phar) — to throw. (Piel) to dust, powder
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עָפָר · עֹפֶר · עֵפֶר
Move | verb pi
Collocation: עפר בְּעָפָר
to fling dust = causative action by which humans pick up handfuls of dirt from the ground and throw in the direction of others ► as an insult and humiliation
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָפַר] vb. denom. Pi. 2 S 16:13 and kept dusting (him) with dust (throwing [lumps of] dry earth at him). ref