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Hebrew verb · H3557

כּוּל

kulkool

to sustain

38 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kûwl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 36
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3557

properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)

The King James renders it: (be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).

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

kul is rendered "to sustain". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 45:11And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-six different ways.

The first use

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

Genesis 45:11וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֤י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twelve of the word's thirty-eight uses are in 1 Kings.

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

  • it contained3
  • to contain3
  • and they supplied2
  • to hold in2
  • to supply you2
  • and has he contained1
  • and he provided for1
  • and he supplied them1
  • and he sustained them1
  • and I supplied them1
  • and I will provide for1
  • and I will supply1

and 19 more, 38 uses in all

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.

כּוּןkunto establish: prepareUses217
כּוּשִׁיKushiEthiopianUses26
כּוּרkurfurnaceUses9
כּוּמָזkumazbraceletUses2
כּוּשִׁיתKushithCushitessUsesnot recorded

The words it stands beside

All 38, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

36 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

  • יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָ2
  • לְהָכִ֖יל2
  • אֲכַלְכֵּ֥ל1
  • הָכִ֔יל1
  • וָאֲכַלְכְּלֵ֖ם1
  • וַיְכַלְכֵּ֤ל1
  • וַֽיְכַלְכְּלֵ֔ם1
  • וְכָ֥ל1
  • וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ1
  • וְכִלְכְּלוּ֩1
  • וְכָלְכְּל֔וּ1
  • וְכִלְכְּלָ֖ם1

and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)5HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVhi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpi3ms
  • Hc/Vpq1cs2Hc/Vpq1cs
  • Hc/Vpq3cp2Hc/Vpq3cp
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Vpcc/Sp2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpi3mp/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vpcc
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HC/VPp3cp
  • Hc/Vpq3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpq3ms/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vpw1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw1cs/Sp3mp

Genesis

three uses
  • And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

    Genesis 45:11

    • וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֤יvekhilkaltiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will provide for
  • Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

    Genesis 47:12

    • וַיְכַלְכֵּ֤לvaykhalkelHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he provided for
  • Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.

    Genesis 50:21

    • אֲכַלְכֵּ֥לʾakhalkelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will provide for

Ruth

one use
  • He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

    Ruth 4:15

    • וּלְכַלְכֵּ֖לulekhalkelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to sustain

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

    2 Samuel 19:32

    • כִלְכַּ֤לkhilkalverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had supplied
  • The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”

    2 Samuel 19:33

    • וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֥יvekhilkaltiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will supply
  • When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

    2 Samuel 20:3

    • וַֽיְכַלְכְּלֵ֔םvaykhalkelemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he sustained them

1 Kings

twelve uses
  • Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

    1 Kings 4:7

    • וְכִלְכְּל֥וּvekhilkeluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they supplied
    • לְכַלְכֵּֽל׃ סlekhalkelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to supply
  • Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

    1 Kings 4:27

    • וְכִלְכְּלוּ֩vekhilkeluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they supplied
  • It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

    1 Kings 7:26

    • יָכִֽיל׃ פyakhilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it contained
  • He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

    1 Kings 7:38

    • יָכִ֣יל׀yakhilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it contained
  • But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

    1 Kings 8:27

    • יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָyekhalkelukhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they contain you
  • On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.

    1 Kings 8:64

    • מֵֽהָכִיל֙mehakhilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: for containing
  • And you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

    1 Kings 17:4

    • לְכַלְכֶּלְךָ֖lekhalkelkhapreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to supply you
  • “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

    1 Kings 17:9

    • לְכַלְכְּלֶֽךָ׃lekhalkelekhapreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to supply you
  • for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

    1 Kings 18:4

    • וְכִלְכְּלָ֖םvekhilkelamHc/Vpq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he supplied them
  • Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

    1 Kings 18:13

    • וָאֲכַלְכְּלֵ֖םvaakhalkelemHc/Vpw1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I supplied them
  • The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

    1 Kings 20:27

    • וְכָלְכְּל֔וּvekhalkeluconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they were supplied

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

    2 Chronicles 2:6

    • יְכַלְכְּלֻ֑הוּyekhalkeluhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they will contain him
  • It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

    2 Chronicles 4:5

    • יָכִֽיל׃ סyakhilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it contained
  • But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

    2 Chronicles 6:18

    • יְכַלְכְּל֔וּךָyekhalkelukhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: they will contain you
  • Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not contain all these offerings.

    2 Chronicles 7:7

    • לְהָכִ֛ילlehakhilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to contain

Nehemiah

one use
  • For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

    Nehemiah 9:21

    • כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥םkilkaltamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you sustained them

Psalms

two uses
  • Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

    Psalms 55:22

    • יְכַ֫לְכְּלֶ֥ךָyekhalkelekhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will sustain you
  • It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

    Psalms 112:5

    • יְכַלְכֵּ֖לyekhalkelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he maintains

Proverbs

one use
  • The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?

    Proverbs 18:14

    • יְכַלְכֵּ֣לyekhalkelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will endure

Isaiah

one use
  • Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

    Isaiah 40:12

    • וְכָ֥לvekholconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and has he contained

Jeremiah

four uses
  • “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

    Jeremiah 2:13

    • יָכִ֖לוּyakhiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they contain
  • But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

    Jeremiah 6:11

    • הָכִ֔ילhakhilverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hold in
  • But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

    Jeremiah 10:10

    • יָכִ֥לוּyakhiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will endure
  • If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

    Jeremiah 20:9

    • כַּֽלְכֵ֖לkalkhelverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hold in

Ezekiel

two uses
  • Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

    Ezekiel 21:28

    • לְהָכִ֖ילlehakhilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to contain
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

    Ezekiel 23:32

    • לְהָכִֽיל׃lehakhilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to contain

Joel

one use
  • The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

    Joel 2:11

    • יְכִילֶֽנּוּ׃yekhilenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he endure it

Amos

one use
  • Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

    Amos 7:10

    • לְהָכִ֖ילlehakhilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to endure

Zechariah

one use
  • For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

    Zechariah 11:16

    • יְכַלְכֵּ֔לyekhalkelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sustain

Malachi

one use
  • But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

    Malachi 3:2

    • מְכַלְכֵּל֙mekhalkelverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: endure

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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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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