חוֹל
chôwl
Meaning
“sand”
BDB sand
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15 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 22:17
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חוֹל
8 books
Genesis 22:17
וְ/כַ/ח֕וֹל
that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
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Exodus 2:12
בַּ/חֽוֹל
He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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Deuteronomy 33:19
חֽוֹל
They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, The hidden treasures of the sand.
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1 Samuel 13:5
כַּ/ח֛וֹל
The Philistines assembled 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 encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
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2 Samuel 17:11
כַּ/ח֥וֹל
But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
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1 Kings 4:20
כַּ/ח֥וֹל
Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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Hosea 1:10
כְּ/ח֣וֹל
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
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Habakkuk 1:9
כַּ/ח֖וֹל
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
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