Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2344
חוֹל
cholkhole
sand
23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chôwl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2344is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 15 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2344
sand (as round or whirling particles)
The King James renders it: sand.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chol is rendered "sand". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 22:17וְכַח֕וֹל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the sand8
- like sand of4
- and like the sand2
- more than sand of2
- sand2
- and like sand of1
- in the sand1
- more than sand1
- sand of1
- the sand1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כְּח֣וֹל3
- כַּח֛וֹל3
- מֵח֣וֹל3
- כַּח֥וֹל2
- בַּחֽוֹל׃1
- הַח֑וֹל1
- וְכַח֕וֹל1
- וְ֝כַח֗וֹל1
- וּֽכְח֥וֹל1
- חוֹל֙1
- ח֣וֹל1
- חֽוֹל׃ ס1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular9HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HR/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
three uses
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- וְכַח֕וֹלvekhacholconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the sand
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- כְּח֣וֹלkecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like sand of
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
- כְּח֥וֹלkecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like sand of
Exodus
one use
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
- בַּחֽוֹל׃bacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the sand
Deuteronomy
one use
They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”
- חֽוֹל׃ סcholnoun · masculine singulartagged: sand
Joshua
one use
So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
- כַּח֛וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
Judges
one use
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- כַּח֛וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
1 Samuel
one use
Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
- כַּח֛וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
2 Samuel
one use
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- כַּח֥וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
1 Kings
two uses
The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
- כַּח֥וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
- כַּח֕וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
Job
two uses
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.
- מֵח֣וֹלmecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than sand of
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- וְ֝כַח֗וֹלvekhacholconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the sand
Psalms
two uses
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
- וּֽכְח֥וֹלukhecholconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and like sand of
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- מֵח֣וֹלmecholpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: more than sand
Proverbs
one use
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
- הַח֑וֹלhacholthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sand
Isaiah
two uses
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
- כְּח֣וֹלkecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like sand of
Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
- כַחוֹל֙khacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
Jeremiah
three uses
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
- חוֹל֙cholnoun · masculine singulartagged: sand
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- מֵח֣וֹלmecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than sand of
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- ח֣וֹלcholnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sand of
Hosea
one use
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- כְּח֣וֹלkecholpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like sand of
Habakkuk
one use
All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.
- כַּח֖וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
