H2344 H2344
Sand; granular material of the seashore, used overwhelmingly as a figure for innumerable quantity or immense weight.
Almost always appearing in the phrase 'sand of the sea,' this noun serves as the Hebrew Bible's premier image of uncountable abundance. God promises Abraham descendants as numerous as the sand on the seashore (Gen 22:17), and Jacob echoes this at the Jabbok (Gen 32:12). Joseph stores grain 'like the sand of the sea' until counting becomes meaningless (Gen 41:49). In wisdom literature, sand figures overwhelming weight — Job's grief outweighs the sand of the seas (Job 6:3). Only rarely does it denote literal sand as a substance, as when Moses looks both ways before burying the Egyptian in the sand (Exod 2:12) or when Jeremiah declares God set sand as the sea's eternal boundary (Jer 5:22).
Senses
1. sand — Sand used overwhelmingly in similes for innumerable quantity ('like the sand of the sea') — the Abrahamic promise (Gen 22:17; 32:12), military hordes (Judg 7:12; 1 Sam 13:5), and abundance (Gen 41:49). Literal usage is rare: Exodus 2:12, Jeremiah 5:22. Spanish 'arena,' French 'sable' confirm a single concrete noun. 23×
AR["أَكْثَرَ-مِنْ-رَمْلِ","الرَّمْلِ","رَمْلًا","رَمْلُ","كَ-الرَّمْلِ","كَ-رَمْلِ","كَالرَّملِ","كَرَمْلِ","كَـ-الرَّمْلِ","كَـ-الـ-رَّمْل","كَـ-الـ-رَّمْلِ","كَـ-رَمْلِ","مِنْ-رَمْلِ","وَ-كَ-الرَّملِ","وَ-كَـ-الرَّمْلِ"]·ben["-বালির","-বালির-মতো","আর-বালির-মতো","ও-যেমন-বালি","থেকে-বালি","বালি","বালির","বালির-মত","বালির-মতো","বালির-মতো-","বালু","মত","যেমন-বালি","সমুদ্রের-বালির-চেয়ে"]·DE["Sand","[החול]","[וכחול]","[חול]","[כחול]","[מחול]","und-wie-den-Sand","wie-Sand","wie-den-Sand","wie-der-Sand","wie-der-sand"]·EN["and-as-sand","and-as-the-sand","as-sand-of","as-the-sand","like-sand-of","like-the-sand","sand","sand-of","than-sand-of","the-sand"]·FR["[חול]","[כחול]","[מחול]","comme-le-sable","comme-le-sand","comme-sable-de","de-מחול","et-comme-le-sable","et-וכחול","le-החול","sable","sand"]·heb["ה-חול","ו-כ-ה-חול","ו-כ-חול","חול","כ-ה-חול","כ-חול","מ-חול"]·HI["और-जैसे-बालू","जैसे-बालू-","जैसे-रेत","बढ़ाऊँगा","बालू","बालू-की-तरह","बालू-जैसे","बालू-से","रेत","रेत-का","रेत-की-तरह","रेत-के।","रेत-जैसा","रेत-जैसे","समान-बालू","समुद्र-की-बालू-से"]·ID["dan-seperti-pasir","dari-pasir","pasir","seperti-pasir"]·IT["[כחול]","come-il-sabbia","come-sabbia-di","da-than-sand-of","e-come-il-e-as-sand","e-come-il-sabbia","il-il-sand","sabbia"]·jav["kados-pasir","kados-wedhi","kados-wedi","kados-wédhi","lan-kados-wedhi","lan-kadosdene-pasir","ngungkuli-","pasir","saking-wedi","wedhi-","wedi"]·KO["~같이","같이-모래","그리고-모래-같이","모래-같이","모래-보다","모래같이-","모래를","모래의","모래처럼","에같이-모래","처럼-모래","처럼-모래처럼"]·PT["a-areia","areia","areia-de","como-a-areia","como-a-areia-do","como-areia","como-areia-de","de-areia-de","e-como-areia","mais-que-areia-de"]·RU["более-песка","и-как-песок","как-песок","песка","песок"]·ES["arena","arena-de","como-arena","como-arena-de","como-la-arena","la-arena","más-que-arena-de","y-como-arena"]·SW["ambao","kama","kama-mchanga","kama-mchanga-wa","kuliko-mchanga-wa","mchanga","mchanga-wa","mchangani","na-kama-mchanga"]·TR["-gibi-kum","-kum-gibi","de-kum-gibi","kum-gibi","kum-gibi-","kumu","kumu-gibi","kumun","kumundan","kumundan-","ve-kum-gibi"]·urd["اور-ریت-کی-طرح","جیسا-ریت","جیسے-ریت","ریت","ریت-جیسی","ریت-سے-زیادہ","ریت-کا","ریت-کی-طرح","ریت-کی-مانند","ریت-کے","سمندر-کی-ریت-سے","مانند-ریت"]
Gen 22:17, Gen 32:12, Gen 41:49, Exod 2:12, Deut 33:19, Josh 11:4, Judg 7:12, 1 Sam 13:5, 2 Sam 17:11, 1 Kgs 4:20, 1 Kgs 4:29, Job 6:3 (+11 more)
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חוֹל n.m. Ho 2:1 sand (perhaps as turning or whirling; otherwise explained by Sta, vid. sub חֲוִילָה; NH id., Aramaic חָלָא, ܚܳܠܴܐ )—ח׳ abs. Gn 22:17 + 15 times; cstr. Gn 32:13 + 6times;—sand Ex 2:12 (E); set as bound for sea Je 5:22; שְׂפֻנֵי טמוני ח׳ Dt 33:19 hidden treasures of sand, poet. for glass (regarded as mysteriously produced out of sand, v. Di and reff.); a. usually sand of…