עפר

Perhaps related to אֵפֶר‎ ('éfer, ʾḗp̄er, “ash”). From Proto-Semitic *ʕapar- (“dust”). Compare Aramaic עַפְרָא‎ (ʿap̄rā, “dust”) (absolutive: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)), Arabic غَبَرَة‎ (ḡabara) / غُبَار‎ (ḡubār, “dust”), (perhaps borrowed from Aramaic) عَفَر‎ (ʕafar, “dust”), Ugaritic 𐎓𐎔𐎗 (ʿpr) and Akkadian 𒅖 (eperum, “dust; soil, earth”).

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Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. earth, dirt
2. (literary) dust
   • Psalms 103:14, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏כִּי־הוּא יָדַע יִצְרֵנוּ זָכוּר כִּי־עָפָר אֲנָחְנוּ׃‎‎

     Ki hu yadá yitzrénu; zakhúr ki ʿafar anáḥnu

     For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

3. (biblical) ashes

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• (dust): אָבָק‎ ('avák)

עֹפֶר • ('ófer) m

1. defective spelling of עופר‎

עָפֹר • ('afór) m

1. defective spelling of עפור‎

• H6083 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible