The word in Scripture

Dust in the Bible

The word dust appears 108 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Dust is our lowly frame, formed and returning to the ground. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What dust means in the Bible

Dust is our lowly frame, formed and returning to the ground.

Where the word dust appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word dust appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”Genesis 3:19

“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:”Genesis 18:27

“Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.”Psalms 18:42

“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?”Psalms 30:9

“While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.”Proverbs 8:26

“And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.”Isaiah 34:9

“Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”Isaiah 52:2

“Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”Luke 10:11