kul · provide for

What it means

kul (כּוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “provide for”.

Sustain, provide someone with what he needs to live; also hold, contain.

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. To feed someone, keep them alive.
2. To hold, or endure something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• held ×4
• sustain ×4
• provided ×3
• sustained ×3
• I will provide for ×2
• bear ×2
• can endure ×2
• contain ×2
• contain you ×2
• fed them ×2
• others ×11

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×12
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 45:11

  I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine, so that you do not come to poverty, you and your household and all that you have.’

• Genesis 47:12

  Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number of their little ones.

• Genesis 50:21

  So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke to their heart.

• Ruth 4:15

  He will be to you one who brings back the soul and one who sustains your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.”

• 2 Samuel 19:32

  Barzillai was very old, eighty years old, and he had provided for the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

• 2 Samuel 19:33

  The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

• 2 Samuel 20:3

  David came to his house in Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, the concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house under guard; he provided for them, but to them he did not go in. So they were shut up until the day of their death, in widowhood for life.

• 1 Kings 4:7

  And Solomon had twelve prefects over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his house; for a month in the year it would be on each one to sustain them.

• 1 Kings 4:27

  And those prefects sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  And he made ten basins of bronze; forty baths each basin held; each basin was four cubits; one basin on each base for the ten bases.

• 1 Kings 8:27

  But will Elohim truly live on the earth? Look, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

• 1 Kings 8:64

  On that day the king sanctified the middle of the court that was in front of the house of YHWH; for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the altar of bronze that was before YHWH was too small to contain the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.

• 1 Kings 17:4

  And it will be that you will drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”

• 1 Kings 17:9

  “Get up, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there. Look, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”

• 1 Kings 18:4

  and it happened, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to each cave, and fed them with bread and water.

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of YHWH, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of YHWH, fifty by fifty men in each cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 1 Kings 20:27

  The sons of Israel were counted and provisioned, and went to meet them; and the sons of Israel encamped opposite them like two little flocks of goats, while Aram filled the land.

• 2 Chronicles 2:6

  But who will have the strength to build him a house, since the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain him? And who am I that I should build him a house, except to offer up in smoke before him?

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 6:18

  But will Elohim truly live with human beings on the earth? Look, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

• 2 Chronicles 7:7

  Solomon sanctified the middle of the court that was before the house of YHWH, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings; for the altar of bronze that Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat.

• Nehemiah 9:21

  Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

• Psalms 55:22

  Cast upon YHWH your burden, and he will sustain you; he will never allow the righteous to be moved.

• Psalms 112:5

  Good is the man who shows favor and lends; he conducts his affairs with justice.

• Proverbs 18:14

  The spirit of a man will sustain his sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear it?

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?

• Jeremiah 2:13

  For two evils my people has done: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold the water.

• Jeremiah 6:11

  But I am full of the fury of YHWH; I am weary of holding in. “Pour out on the child in the street, and on the gathering of young men together; for both husband with wife will be taken, the old with the one full of days.

• Jeremiah 10:10

  But YHWH is the true Elohim; he is the living Elohim and the eternal King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot bear his indignation.

• Jeremiah 20:9

  And I said, “I will not remember him or speak any more in his name.” But there was in my heart as it were a fire burning, shut up in my bones, and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot.

• Ezekiel 23:32

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide; you will be for laughter and for derision; it holds much.

• Joel 2:11

  And YHWH utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great; for mighty is the one who carries out his word; for great is the day of YHWH and very fearsome; and who can endure it?

• Amos 7:10

  Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

• Zechariah 11:16

  For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land; those that are disappearing he will not attend to, the straying he will not seek, and the broken he will not heal, the one that stands he will not sustain; but the flesh of the fat he will eat, and their hooves he will tear off.

• Malachi 3:2

  And who can endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like the fire of a refiner and like the lye of launderers.

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