Lexicon :: Strong's H2344 - ḥôl

“I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their[fn] enemies.

“You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’ ”

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance ​— ​like the sand of the sea ​— ​that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.

They summon the peoples to a mountain;

there they offer acceptable sacrifices.

For they draw from the wealth of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.

They went out with all their armies ​— ​a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore ​— ​along with a vast number of horses and chariots.

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

The Philistines also gathered to fight against Israel: three thousand[fn] chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.[fn]

“Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba ​— ​as numerous as the sand by the sea ​— ​be gathered to you and that you personally go into battle.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore.

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas!

That is why my words are rash.

So I thought, “I will die in my own nest

and multiply my days as the sand.[fn]

He rained meat on them like dust,

and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

If I counted them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand;

when I wake up,[fn] I am still with you.

A stone is heavy, and sand a burden,

but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

Israel, even if your people were as numerous

as the sand of the sea,

only a remnant of them will return.

Destruction has been decreed;

justice overflows.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,

and the offspring of your body like its grains; 

their name would not be cut off

or eliminated from my presence.

“Do you not fear me?

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Do you not tremble before me,

the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,

an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?

The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.

They roar but cannot pass over it.

“I made their widows more numerous

than the sand of the seas.

I brought a destroyer at noon

against the mother of young men.

I suddenly released on her

agitation and terrors.

“Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.”

Yet the number of the Israelites

will be like the sand of the sea,

which cannot be measured or counted.

And in the place where they were told:

You are not my people,

they will be called: Sons of the living God.

All of them come to do violence;

their faces are set in determination.[fn]

They gather prisoners like sand.