To sustain
כּוּלStrong’s H3557kul
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kul is the Hebrew word usually translated “it contained”, “contain” and “supplied”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.”
Meaning
- To seize, contain, measure(Qal) to measure, calculate · (Pilpel) to sustain, maintain, contain · (Polpal) to be supplied · (Hilpil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure
How it's translated
- it contained 3
- to contain 3
- and they supplied 2
- to supply you 2
- to hold in 2
- and i will provide for 1
- and he provided for 1
- i will provide for 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 11
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- Psalms 2
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 45:11And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
- Genesis 47:12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
- Genesis 50:21Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
- Ruth 4:15And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
- 2 Samuel 19:32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
- 2 Samuel 19:33And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
All 37 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כּוּל kul · to sustain
1) to seize, contain, measure 1a)(Qal) to measure, calculate 1b) (Pilpel) to sustain, maintain, contain 1b1) to sustain, support, nourish 1b2) to contain, hold in, restrain 1b3) to support, endure 1c) (Polpal) to be supplied 1d) (Hilpil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure 1d1) to contain 1d2) to sustain, endure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sustain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUSTA'IN, verb transitive
[Latin sustineo; sub and teneo, to hold under.]
- To bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; pillars sustain an edifice; a beast sustains a load.
- To hold; to keep from falling; as, a rope sustains a weight.
- To support; to keep from sinking in despondence.
- To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; as provisions to sustain a family or an army.
All definitions and other forms of “sustain”
- To support in any condition by aid; to assist or relieve.
- To bear; to endure without failing or yielding.
- To suffer; to bear; to undergo.
- To maintain; to support; not to dismiss or abate.
- To maintain as a sufficient ground.
- In music, to continue, as the sound of notes through their whole length.
SUSTA'IN, noun
That which upholds. [Not in use.]
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.