חוֹל
chol
“sand”
Definition
sand (as round or whirling particles)
from H2342 (חוּל);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
חוֹל appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea,only a remnant will return.Destruction has been decreed,overflowing with righteousness.
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
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