Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
sand
Usage: sand
Chol means “sand” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2344 — thesauros (“treasure”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2344 חוֹל (chowl) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chowl (khole) n-m. 1. sand (as round or whirling particles) [from H2342] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include sand. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chowl (khole) n-m. 1. sand (as round or whirling particles) [from H2342] KJV: sand. Root(s): H2342
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sand
Usage: sand
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chowl, 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 Old Testament. 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.
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.
23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
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.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2344.
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 thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
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.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
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 number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
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 the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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.
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.
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 pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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 unto me.
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 where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2344, grouped by book.
Chol (Strong's H2344) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sand". chowl (khole) n-m. 1. sand (as round or whirling particles) [from H2342]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H2344 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2344 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
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.