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Lexicon :: Strong's G285 - ammos

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ἄμμος
Transliteration
ammos (Key)
Pronunciation
am'-mos
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from ἅμα (G260)
mGNT
5x in 2 unique form(s) TR
5x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
23x in 4 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἄμμος ámmos, am'-mos; perhaps from G260; sand (as heaped on the beach):—sand.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G285 in the following manner: sand (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G285 in the following manner: sand (5x).

  1. sand, sandy ground

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄμμος ámmos, am'-mos; perhaps from G260; sand (as heaped on the beach):—sand.
STRONGS G285:
ἄμμος, -ου, ἡ, sand; according to a Hebrew comparison ἄμ. τῆς θαλάσσης and ἄμ. παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλ. are used for an innumerable multitude, Romans 9:27; Hebrews 11:12; Revelation 20:8, equivalent to Revelation 12:18 (Revelation 13:1). According to the context sandy ground, Matthew 7:26. (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus often, Plutarch, the Sept. often.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
7:26
Romans
9:27
Hebrews
11:12
Revelation
12:18; 13:1; 20:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G285 matches the Greek ἄμμος (ammos),
which occurs 23 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “And your seed will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will [fn]spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - “For You said, ‘I will surely [fn]prosper you and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Thus Joseph stored up grain [fn]in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped [fn]measuring it, for it was [fn]beyond measure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:12 - So he turned this way and that, and he saw that there was no one around. So he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:4 - Then they came out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 -

Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:11 - “But I counsel that all Israel be utterly gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea in abundance, and that [fn]you personally go into battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 -

And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of understanding in his heart, like the sand that is on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:3 -

“For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;

Therefore my words have been rash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 -

Then He rained [fn]meat upon them like the dust,

Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 -

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.

When I awake, I am still with You.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 -

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,

But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 -

For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

A destructive end is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

“Your seed would have been like the sand,

And the offspring from your loins like its grains;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 -

‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares Yahweh.

‘Do you not tremble in My presence?

For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,

A perpetual statute, so it cannot cross over it.

Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;

Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 -

“Their widows will be more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,

A destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Anguish and terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on [fn]like a military force

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 -

[fn]Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,

Which cannot be measured or numbered;

And it will be that in the place

Where it is said to them,

“You are not My people,”

It will be said to them,

“You are the sons of the living God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:9 -

“All of them come for violence.

[fn]Their horde of faces moves forward.

And they gather captives like sand.

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