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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 - “I will make your [fn]descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, then your [fn]descendants could also be counted.

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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 [fn]seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your [fn]seed shall possess the gate of [fn]their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants 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 [fn]descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - 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 [fn]looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one around, he struck and killed the Egyptian, and hid [fn]his body in the sand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:4

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, the Amalekites, and all the [fn]people 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, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand 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 advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, like 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 -

Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of [fn]mind, 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;

For that reason my words have been rash.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 -

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,

Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 -

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sand.

When I awake, I am still with You.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 -

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,

But the provocation of a 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, Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

“Your [fn]descendants would have been like the sand,

And [fn]your offspring like its grains;

Their name would never be eliminated 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 the LORD.

‘Do you not tremble in My presence?

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

An eternal limit, and it will not cross over it.

Though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;

Though they roar, they will not 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 young man,

A destroyer at noon;

I will suddenly bring down on her

Shock and horror.

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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 an army

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 counted;

And 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.

They gather captives like sand.

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