chouos

Strong’sG5522

dust

stem chou-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

χοῦς, -οός acc., οῦν, ὁ, (contr. from χόος),

[in LXX chiefly for עָפָר;]

1. earth, soil.

2. In later writers (Plut., LXX), = κονιορτός, dust: Mk 6:11, Re 18:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5522 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkho'-os

a heap (as poured out), i.e. rubbish; loose dirt

Fromfrom the base of G5494;

King Jamesdust.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

χοῦς, ὁ,
also ἡ
BRefs 1st c.BC+: (χέω):— soil excavated or heaped up, ὁ χ. ὁ ἐξορυχθείς Refs 5th c.BC+ (un contraction χόου Refs; also (from confusion with χοῦς A) genitive χοός LXX+2nd c.AD+; dative χοΐ Refs 2nd c.BC+
B.2 ={κονιορτός}, dust, LXX+NT
B.3 χοῦς θανάτου the grave, LXX+5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

dust2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	chouos	chouois
object accusative	chouon2×χοῦν	chouoin
direct address vocative	chouor	chouoir
of, belonging to genitive	chouou	chouoiu
to, for dative	chouo	chouoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

choustem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

chouo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

chouon“dust”objectaccusative singular2×

Mark 6:11… akoualeia vu, ekporeuorōntois ekeithen ektinassavar ton chouon ton hupokatō toiu podoiu vu eis …… or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave …

Revelation 18:19kai balala chouon epi tain kefalain autoiu kai krazala …Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep …