Sand
חוֹלStrong’s H2344chol
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chol is the Hebrew word usually translated “like the sand”, “like sand of” and “sand”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;”
Meaning
- Sand
How it's translated
- like the sand 7
- like sand of 4
- sand 3
- more than sand of 2
- and like the sand 1
- in the sand 1
- and like sand 1
- and like sand of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Jeremiah 3
- 1 Kings 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Exodus 2:12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- Deuteronomy 33:19They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
- Joshua 11:4And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
- Judges 7:12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
Hebrew dictionary
חוֹל chol · sand
sand
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sand” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SAND, noun
- Any mass or collection of fine particles of stone, particularly of fine particles of silicious stone, but not strictly reduced to powder or dust.
- Sands, in the plural, tracts of land consisting of sand like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; as the Lybian sands.
All definitions and other forms of “sand”
SAND, verb transitive
- To sprinkle with sand It is customary among the common people in America, to sand their floors with white sand
- To drive upon the sand
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.