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Lexicon :: Strong's H3557 - kûl

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כּוּל
Transliteration
kûl
Pronunciation
kool
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 962

Strong’s Definitions

כּוּל kûwl, kool; a primitive root; properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses):—(be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H3557 in the following manner: contain (6x), feed (6x), sustain (4x), abide (3x), nourish (3x), hold (2x), receive (2x), victual (2x), bear (1x), comprehended (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H3557 in the following manner: contain (6x), feed (6x), sustain (4x), abide (3x), nourish (3x), hold (2x), receive (2x), victual (2x), bear (1x), comprehended (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
  1. to seize, contain, measure

    1. (Qal) to measure, calculate

    2. (Pilpel) to sustain, maintain, contain

      1. to sustain, support, nourish

      2. to contain, hold in, restrain

      3. to support, endure

    3. (Polpal) to be supplied

    4. (Hilpil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure

      1. to contain

      2. to sustain, endure

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כּוּל kûwl, kool; a primitive root; properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses):—(be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).
STRONGS H3557: Abbreviations
† [כּוּל] verb comprehend, contain (Late Hebrew, Aramaic id., measure, measure out, of dry or liquid measure; Syriac Aph`el bdb046501 id.; Arabic bdb046502 measure grain) —
Qal Perfect only Isaiah 40:12 בְּשָׁלִש כָּל ֗֗֗ מִי הָאָרֶץ עֲפַר who hath comprehended the dust of the earth in a shalish-measure?
Pilp. Perfect כִּלְכֵּל 2 Samuel 19:33; suffix כִּלְכְּלָם 1 Kings 18:4; 2nd person masculine singular suffix כִּלְכַּלְתָּם Nehemiah 9:21, etc.; Imperfect יְכַלְכֵּל Zechariah 11:16 +, etc.; Infinitive construct כַּלְכֵּל Jeremiah 20:9 +, etc.; Participle מְכַלְכֵּל Malachi 3:2; — sustain, maintain, contain:
1. sustain, support, nourish, followed by accusative of person Genesis 45:11; Genesis 50:21 (both E), 2 Samuel 19:33; 2 Samuel 19:34; 2 Samuel 20:3; 1 Kings 4:7a (1 Kings 4:7b absolute), 1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 17:4, 9; Nehemiah 9:21; Ruth 4:15; Psalm 55:23; Zechariah 11:16 (of sheep); followed by accusative of person + of thing (food) Genesis 47:12 (J), 1 Kings 18:4, 13.
2. contain, followed by accusative of person 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 6:18 (heavens cannot contain י׳); hold in, restrain Yahweh's word within one, Jeremiah 20:9.
3. support, endure, sickness רוּחַ אִישׁ מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ יְכַל׳ Proverbs 18:14; Malachi 3:2 (object אֶתיֿוֺם בּוֺאוֺ); of sustaining a cause, in court, בְּמִשְׁפָּט דְּבָרָיו יְכַל׳ Psalm 112:5.
Polpal Perfect 3rd person plural כָּלְכְּלוּ were supplied with food 1 Kings 20:27 (Klo proposes בַּגִּלְבֹּעַ).
Hiph. Imperfect יָכִיל 1 Kings 7:26 + 2 times etc.; Infinitive construct הָכִיל Jeremiah 6:11 + 5 times; — contain, hold, hold in, endure;
1.. contain, followed by accusative (of liquid) 1 Kings 7:26, 38; 2 Chronicles 4:5; in figure Jeremiah 2:13, absolute Ezekiel 23:32; (of burnt-offering) 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Chronicles 7:7; hold in (wrath of י׳, object not expressed, subject Jeremiah) Jeremiah 6:11 (opposed to שָׁפַךְ).
2. sustain, endure, followed by accusative Amos 7:10; Jeremiah 10:10; Joel 2:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

45:11; 47:12; 50:21

Ruth

4:15

2 Samuel

19:33; 19:33; 19:34; 20:3

1 Kings

4:7; 4:7; 5:7; 7:26; 7:26; 7:38; 8:27; 8:64; 17:4; 17:9; 18:4; 18:4; 18:13; 20:27

2 Chronicles

2:5; 4:5; 6:18; 7:7

Nehemiah

9:21; 9:21

Psalms

55:23; 112:5

Proverbs

18:14

Isaiah

40:12

Jeremiah

2:13; 6:11; 6:11; 10:10; 20:9; 20:9

Ezekiel

23:32

Joel

2:11

Amos

7:10

Zechariah

11:16; 11:16

Malachi

3:2; 3:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3557 matches the Hebrew כּוּל (kûl),
which occurs 37 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - “There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - “So now, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and support you and your little ones.” So he comforted them [giving them encouragement and hope] and spoke [with kindness] to their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - “May he also be to you one who restores life and sustains your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great and wealthy man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me and I will provide for you in Jerusalem with me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 -

Then David came to his house (palace) at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, his [fn]concubines whom he had left to take care of the house, and placed them under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were confined, and lived as widows until the day of their death.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 -

Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel, who [fn]secured provisions for the king and his household; each man had to provide for a month in the year.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - Those deputies provided food for King Solomon and for all [the staff] who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand [fn]baths.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 -

Then he made ten basins of bronze; each basin held forty baths and was four cubits, and there was one basin on each of the ten stands.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 -

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the house (temple) of the LORD; for he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to hold [all] the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat of the peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - “You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there [with food].”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Arise, go to [fn]Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - “Has it not been told to my lord [Elijah] what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred of the LORDS prophets by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27 - The sons of Israel were counted and given provisions, and they went to meet them. The Israelites camped before the enemy like two [fn]little flocks of goats [with everything against them, except God], and the Arameans filled the country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - “But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens and [even] the highest heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I to build a house for Him, except [as a place] to burn incense before Him?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - It was a handbreadth (the width of the four fingers) thick; its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold [fn]3,000 baths (measures).
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 -

“But will God actually dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 -

Moreover, Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the house of the LORD, for it was there that he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the bronze altar which he had made was not sufficient to hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat [all together].

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 -

“Indeed, for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,

Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:22 -

Cast your burden on the LORD [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you;

He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5 -

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;

He conducts his affairs with justice.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:14 -

The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness,

But as for a broken spirit, who can bear it?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 -

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,

And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],

And calculated the dust of the earth with a [fn]measure,

And weighed the mountains in a balance

And the hills in a pair of scales?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 -

“For My people have committed two evils:

They have abandoned (rejected) Me,

The fountain of living water,

And they have carved out their own cisterns,

Broken cisterns

That cannot hold water.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 -

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the LORD;

I am tired of restraining it.

[I will] pour it out on the children in the street

And on the young men gathered together;

For both the husband and wife shall be taken,

The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:10 -

But the LORD is the true God and the God who is Truth;

He is the living God and the everlasting King.

The earth quakes and shudders at His wrath,

And the nations are not able to endure His indignation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 -

If I say, “I will not remember Him

Or speak His name anymore,”

Then my heart becomes a burning fire

Shut up in my bones.

And I am weary of enduring and holding it in;

I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer].

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - “Thus says the Lord GOD,

‘You will drink your sister’s cup,

Which is deep and wide [and filled to the brim].

You shall be laughed at and derided;

It contains much [too much to endure].

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 -

The LORD utters His voice before His army,

For His camp is very great,

Because strong and powerful is he who [obediently] carries out His word.

For the day of the LORD is indeed great and very terrible [causing dread];

Who can endure it?

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 -

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel [site of the golden calf shrine], sent word to [fn]Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - “For behold, I am going to raise up a [false] shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or feed the healthy; but will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs [to consume everything].
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap [which removes impurities and uncleanness].
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