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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

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

The word stands in fifteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

The words it stands beside

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.

    Genesis 22:17

    • 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.’”

    Genesis 32:12

    • 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.

    Genesis 41:49

    • 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.

    Exodus 2:12

    • 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.”

    Deuteronomy 33:19

    • 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.

    Joshua 11:4

    • 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.

    Judges 7:12

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 13:5

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 17:11

    • 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.

    1 Kings 4:20

    • 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.

    1 Kings 4:29

    • 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.

    Job 6:3

    • 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.

    Job 29:18

    • 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.

    Psalms 78:27

    • 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.

    Psalms 139:18

    • 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.

    Proverbs 27:3

    • 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.

    Isaiah 10:22

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 48:19

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 5:22

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 15:8

    • 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.”

    Jeremiah 33:22

    • 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.’

    Hosea 1:10

    • 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.

    Habakkuk 1:9

    • כַּח֖וֹלkacholpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sand

The letters

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.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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