כֹּל kol

Hebrew word for “all” · Strong’s H3605 · used 5,413 times in 4,241 verses

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Meaning

1) all, the whole; 1a) all, the whole of;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kol in context, with how often each is used:

• all 4,124
• every 835
• any 200
• everything 76
• among 36
• more than 35
• everyone 18
• over 15
• like 13
• anything 12
• some 7
• among every 5

Where it is used

Also in 27 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 8 (27), Deuteronomy 28 (26), Psalms 119 (26), Leviticus 11 (24), Joshua 10 (24), Numbers 4 (21), Jeremiah 36 (21), Exodus 35 (19), Numbers 1 (19), Deuteronomy 4 (19)

Forms

• כל 3,079
• וכל 741
• בכל 452
• לכל 317
• מכל 229
• ככל 123
• ובכל 100
• כלם 100
• ולכל 69
• הכל 60

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kol more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• דָּבָר davar “word” 361
• עַד ad “till” 262
• עִיר ir “city” 245
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 250
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 215
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 215
• רָאָה raah “to see” 245
• אָב av “father” 233
• זֶה zeh “this” 232
• הֶם hem “them” 224
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 215
• צָוָה tsavah “to command” 170

Key verses

The verses using kol that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• Deuteronomy 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
• 1 Chronicles 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and…
• Psalms 22:27 — All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
• Isaiah 2:2 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above…
• Isaiah 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Isaiah 63:9 — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried…
• Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against…
• Ezekiel 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Malachi 1:11 — For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto…
• Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn…

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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.