חוֹל
chol
sand
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Occurrences in Scripture
23 total occurrences across the text
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 32:12You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”
Genesis 41:49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Exodus 2:12He 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.
Deuteronomy 33:19They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”
Joshua 11:4They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
Judges 7:12The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
1 Samuel 13:5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
2 Samuel 17:11But 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.
1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 4:29God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
Job 6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
Job 29:18Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
Psalms 78:27He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.
Psalms 139:18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
Proverbs 27:3A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
Isaiah 10:22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 48:19Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Jeremiah 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
Jeremiah 33:22As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”
Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; 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.’
Habakkuk 1:9All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.