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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

H3557

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - And I will nourish thee there: for the famine is yet for five years; lest thou be consumed, and thy sons, and all thy possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - And he shall be to thee a restorer of thy soul, and one to cherish thy old age; for thy daughter-in-law which has loved thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, has born him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - (LXX 19:33) And Berzelli was a very old man, [fn]eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he dwelt in Manaim; for he was a very great man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - (LXX 19:34) And the king said to Berzelli, Thou shalt go over with me, and I will nourish thine old age with me in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 - And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came to supply for a month in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - (LXX 5:1) And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and they execute every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they [fn]omit nothing. And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - (LXX 7:12) and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 - (LXX 7:24) And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty [fn]baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - [fn]But will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and heaven of [fn]heavens will not suffice thee, how much less even this house which I have built to thy name?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - In that day the king consecrated the middle of the court in the front of the house of the Lord; for there he offered the whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifices, and the [fn]fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which was before the Lord was too little to bear the whole-burnt-offering and the sacrifices of peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - And it shall be that thou shalt drink water of the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed thee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - And it came to pass when Jezabel smote the prophets of the Lord, that Abdiu took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has it not been told to thee my lord, what I did when Jezabel slew the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27 - (LXX 21:27) And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - (LXX 2:5) And who will be able to build him a house? for the heaven and heaven of heavens do not bear his glory: and who am I, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - For will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and the heaven of heavens will not suffice thee, what then is this house which I have built?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 - And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in the house of the Lord: for he offered there the whole-burnt-offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings, for the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not sufficient to receive the whole-burnt-offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 - And thou didst sustain them forty years in the wilderness; thou didst not allow anything to fail them: their garments did not wax old, and their feet were not bruised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:22 - (LXX 54:23) [fn] Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall [fn]sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5 - (LXX 111:5) The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:14 - A wise servant calms a man's anger; but who can endure a faint-hearted man?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - For my people has committed two faults, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - And I allowed my wrath to come to the full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was as burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 - And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the [fn]execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be [fn]able to resist it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - Then Amasias the priest of Bæthel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall [fn]dislocate the joints of their necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - And who will [fn]abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of [fn]fullers.
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