chol · sand

What it means

chol (חוֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sand”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The fine grains of the seashore; too many to count.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• like the sand ×13
• sand ×10

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Hosea×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 22:17

  that I will surely bless you and will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the shore of the sea; and your offspring will possess the gate of its enemies.

• Genesis 32:12

  But you said, ‘I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of its abundance.’”

• Genesis 41:49

  Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

• Exodus 2:12

  He looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one, he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Deuteronomy 33:19

  Peoples to the mountain they will call; there they will sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness, for they will suck the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

• Joshua 11:4

  They came out, they and all their camps with them, a people as many as the sand that is on the shore of the sea, in multitude, and horses and chariots, very many.

• Judges 7:12

  Midian and Amalek and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley like locusts in multitude; and their camels were without number, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude.

• 1 Samuel 13:5

  The Philistines gathered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand that is on the shore of the sea in multitude. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  So I counsel that all Israel be surely gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, and that you in person go into battle.

• 1 Kings 4:20

  Judah and Israel were many, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

• 1 Kings 4:29

  And Elohim gave Solomon wisdom and understanding in very great measure, and breadth of heart like the sand that is on the shore of the sea.

• Job 6:3

  For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash.

• Job 29:18

  And I said, ‘With my nest I will expire, and like the sand I will multiply my days.

• Psalms 78:27

  and rained down upon them meat like dust, and like the sand of the seas, winged birds,

• Psalms 139:18

  If I count them, they are more than the sand; I awake, and still I am with you.

• Proverbs 27:3

  Heavy is the stone, and a burden the sand, but the vexation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

• Isaiah 10:22

  For even if your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return; destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

• Isaiah 48:19

  and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the offshoots of your inward parts like its grains; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

• Jeremiah 5:22

  Do you not fear me? declares YHWH. Do you not tremble before me, who placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, an eternal decree, and it cannot pass beyond it? And they toss, but they cannot prevail; and its waves roar, but they cannot pass beyond it.

• Jeremiah 15:8

  Their widows became more numerous before me than the sand of the seas; I brought upon them, upon the mother of the young man, a destroyer at noonday; I made fall upon her suddenly anguish and terrors.

• Jeremiah 33:22

  As the army of the heavens cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.”

• Hosea 1:10

  Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and it will happen that in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “Children of the living El.”

• Habakkuk 1:9

  All of it comes for violence; the eagerness of their faces is forward, and it gathers captives like the sand.