Exodus 32:20
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
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Powder
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Luke 20:18
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
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3 occurrences in 2 verses.
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עָפָר
ʻâphâr · aw-fawr'
3 times translated as this KJV form110 total Strong's occurrences
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
Strong's KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 23:6Strong's last: 2 Kings 23:15
Open full H6083 profile →λικμάω
likmáō · lik-mah'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to winnow, i.e. (by analogy), to triturate
Strong's KJV usage: :--grind to powder.
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Strong's first: Matthew 21:44Strong's last: Luke 20:18
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dâqaq · daw-kak'
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to crush (or intransitively) crumble
Strong's KJV usage: beat in pieces (small), bruise, make dust, (into) × powder, (be, very) small, stamp (small).
Strong's first: Exodus 32:20Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 34:7
Open full H1854 profile →אָבָק
ʼâbâq · aw-bawk'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
light particles (as volatile)
Strong's KJV usage: (small) dust, powder.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:24Strong's last: Deuteronomy 28:24
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H1854
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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powder
POW'DER, noun [Latin pulvis.]
1. Any dry substance composed of minute particles, whether natural or artificial; more generally, a substance comminuted or triturated to fine particles. Thus dust is the powder of earth; flour is the powder of grain. But the word is particularly applied to substances reduced to fine particles for medicinal purposes.
2. A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and granulated; gun-powder.
3. Hair powder; pulverized starch.
POW'DER, verb transitive To reduce to fine particles; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate; to pound, grind or rub into fine particles.
1. To sprinkle with powder; as, to powder the hair.
2. To sprinkle with salt; to corn; as meat.
POW'DER, verb intransitive To come violently. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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