חוֹל chol
Hebrew word for “sand” · Strong’s H2344 · used 23 times in 23 verses
Meaning
sand
How it is translated
Glosses given for chol in context, with how often each is used:
- like the sand 13
- sand 5
- more than the sand 2
- like sand 2
- more than sand 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 3 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
1 Kings 4 (2), Genesis 22 (1), Genesis 32 (1), Genesis 41 (1), Exodus 2 (1), Deuteronomy 33 (1), Joshua 11 (1), Judges 7 (1), 1 Samuel 13 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1)
Forms
- כחול 12
- וכחול 3
- חול 3
- מחול 3
- בחול 1
- החול 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with chol more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָם yam “sea” 17
- רֹב rov “abundance” 6
- רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 6
- סָפַר saphar “to recount” 5
- שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 5
- זֶרַע zera “seed” 4
- עִם im “with” 5
- מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 3
- אָסַף asaph “to gather” 3
- טָמַן taman “to hide” 2
- מְאֹד meod “much” 3
- מָדַד madad “to measure” 2
Key verses
The verses using chol that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and…
- Genesis 32:12 — And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Judges 7:12 — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without…
- 1 Samuel 13:5 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on…
- 1 Kings 4:20 — Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
- 1 Kings 4:29 — And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
- Isaiah 10:22 — For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
- Isaiah 48:19 — Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
- Jeremiah 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot…
- Jeremiah 33:22 — As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister…
- Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place…
- Habakkuk 1:9 — They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
See all 23 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.