Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
sand
Usage: ἄμμος, -ου, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for חוֹל ;] sand, sandy ground: Mat.7:26, Rom.9:27, Heb.11:12, Rev.18:1, Rev.20:8.† (AS)
Ammos means “sand” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H285 — achitub (“Ahitub”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G285 ἄμμος (ammos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ammos (am'-mos) n. 1. sand (as heaped on the beach) [perhaps from G260] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include sand. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
ammos (am'-mos) n. 1. sand (as heaped on the beach) [perhaps from G260] KJV: sand Root(s): G260
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sand
Usage: ἄμμος, -ου, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for חוֹל ;] sand, sandy ground: Mat.7:26, Rom.9:27, Heb.11:12, Rev.18:1, Rev.20:8.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ammos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G285 (ἄμμος) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A great number also of sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.
And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about through deceit to get Alexander’s kingdom, and join it to his own.
And the days of eternity?
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
perish therein. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most
First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G285.
And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.
surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
But thou saidst, I will do thee good, and will make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.
And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.
And having looked round this way and that way, he sees no one; and he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
And they and their kings with them went forth, as the sand of the sea in multitude, and horses, and very many chariots.
And Midian and Amalek and all the children of the east were scattered in the valley, as the locust for multitude; and there was no number to their camels, but they were as the sand on the seashore for multitude.
And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Michmash, opposite Beth-aven southward.
For thus I have surely given counsel, that all Israel be generally gathered to thee from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is upon the seashore for multitude: and that thy presence go in the midst of them.
And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.
And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: But, as it seems, my words are vain.
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.
And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.
Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish before me.
will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noonday: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.
Their voice is as that of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
To whom thou hast spoken and promised, That thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, And as the sand that lieth upon the seashore.
Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.
Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
A great number also of sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.
And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about through deceit to get Alexander’s kingdom, and join it to his own.
And the days of eternity?
As a drop of water unto the sea, and a gravel stone in comparison of the sand; So are a thousand years to the days of eternity.
Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, are easier to bear, Than a man without understanding.
perish therein. Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G285, grouped by book.
Ammos (Strong's G285) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sand". ammos (am'-mos) n. 1. sand (as heaped on the beach) [perhaps from G260]
This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G285 across 23 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G285 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sand. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G285, with linked reader references where each row is available.