אָבָק
avak · fine dust
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H80 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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avak (אָבָק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fine dust”.
Very fine dust.
How to say it
a·vak
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Fine earth raised by the wind.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- dust ×5
- powder ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 9:9
It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become on people and on animals boils breaking out in blisters throughout all the land of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 28:24
YHWH will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from the heavens it will come down on you until you are destroyed.
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the tyrants like chaff that passes away; and it will happen in an instant, suddenly.
- Ezekiel 26:10
From the abundance of his horses their dust will cover you; from the noise of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will quake when he enters your gates as one enters a breached city.
- Nahum 1:3
YHWH is slow to anger and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. YHWH, in the whirlwind and in the storm is his way, and clouds are the dust of his feet.