ἄμμος
ammos
“sand”
Definition
sand (as heaped on the beach)
perhaps from G260 (ἅμα);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
ἄμμος appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:“Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea,only the remnant will be saved.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.