All
כֹּלStrong’s H3606kol
Appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kol is the Aramaic word usually translated “all”, “any” and “every”. It appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”
Meaning
- All, whole, the wholethe whole of, all · every, any, none
How it's translated
- all 31
- and all 12
- any 7
- every 6
- and any 6
- in all 4
- to all 4
- over all 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 50
- Ezra 12
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:12In contextFor this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:30In contextBut as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:38In contextAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
- Daniel 2:39In contextAnd after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
- Daniel 2:40In contextAnd the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Aramaic dictionary
כֹּל kol · all
1) all, whole, the whole 1a) the whole of, all 1b) every, any, none
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “all” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ALL, adjective
awl. [Gr. Shemitic from calah, to be ended or completed to perfect.]
- Every one, or the whole number of particulars.
- The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength.
All definitions and other forms of “all”
ALL, adverb
Wholly; completely; entirely; as all along; all bedewed; all over; my friend is all for amusement; I love my father all In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all so long, this word retains its appropriate sense; as, 'he thought them six-pence all too dear, ' that is, he thought them too dear by the sum of sixpence. In the sense of although, as, 'all were it as the rest, ' and in the sense of just, or at the moment, as 'all as his straying flock he fed, ' it is obsolete, or restricted to poetry.
ALL, noun
- The whole number; as, all have not the same disposition; that is, all men.
- The whole; the entire thing; the aggregate amount; as, our all is at stake.“And Laban said, all that thou seest is mine” Genesis 31:43
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.