The Definition of the word Dust

Dust

Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers. "They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. Jehovah" "threatens to bring on the land of Israel, as a punishment for" "forsaking him, a rain of "powder and dust" (Deut. 28:24)." "To cast dust on the head was a sign of mourning (Josh. 7:6); and "to sit in dust, of extreme affliction (Isa. 47:1). "Dust" is" "used to denote the grave (Job 7:21). "To shake off the dust from" "one's feet" against another is to renounce all future" "intercourse with him (Matt. 10:14; Acts 13:51). To "lick the" "dust" is a sign of abject submission (Ps. 72:9); and to throw" dust at one is a sign of abhorrence (2 Sam. 16:13; comp. Acts 22:23).