כּוּל kul
Hebrew word for “to sustain” · Strong’s H3557 · used 38 times in 37 verses
Meaning
1) to seize, contain, measure;
How it is translated
Glosses given for kul in context, with how often each is used:
- supplied 5
- contain 5
- supply 3
- contained 3
- will endure 3
- will provide for 2
- sustained 2
- will contain 2
- will sustain 2
- hold it in 2
- provided for 1
- sustain 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Kings | 12 | 0.9 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Ruth | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Joel | 1 | 1.0 |
Also in 3 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
2 Samuel 19 (2), 1 Kings 4 (2), 1 Kings 7 (2), 1 Kings 8 (2), 1 Kings 17 (2), 1 Kings 18 (2), Genesis 45 (1), Genesis 47 (1), Genesis 50 (1), Ruth 4 (1)
Forms
- להכיל 4
- וכלכלו 3
- יכיל 3
- יכלכל 3
- וכלכלתי 2
- כלכל 2
- יכלכלוך 2
- לכלכלך 2
- יכלו 2
- ויכלכל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kul more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בַּת bat “bath” 3
- מִי mi “who?” 5
- כּוֹס kos “cup” 3
- טֶפַח tephach “handbreadth” 2
- שָׁם sham “there” 5
- נָצַב natsav “to stand” 3
- עֲבִי avi “thickness” 2
- אֻמְנָם umnam “truly” 2
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 4
- נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 3
- בַּרְזִלַּי barzillay “Barzillai” 2
- מַי mayim “water” 4
Key verses
The verses using kul that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 1 Kings 8:27 — But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
- 1 Kings 18:4 — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread…
- Psalms 55:22 — Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
- Psalms 112:5 — A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
- Proverbs 18:14 — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
- Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no…
- Jeremiah 6:11 — Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men…
- Jeremiah 10:10 — But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide…
- Jeremiah 20:9 — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was…
- Joel 2:11 — And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and…
- Amos 7:10 — Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is…
- Malachi 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
See all 37 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.