'Dust' in the Bible

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."