Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NKJV

NKJV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G285 - ammos

Choose a new font size and typeface
ἄμμος
Transliteration
ammos (Key)
Pronunciation
am'-mos
Listen
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)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - “blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - “For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:12 - So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:4

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty[fn] thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:11 - “Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:3 - For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea—
Therefore my words have been rash.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:27 - He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 - If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 - A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD.
‘Will you not tremble at My presence,
Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it?
And though its waves toss to and fro,
Yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 - Her noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - “Yet the number of the children of Israel
Shall be as the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered.
And it shall come to pass
In the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’[fn]
There it shall be said to them,
‘You are sons of the living God.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:9 - “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NKJV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NKJV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.