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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 there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:12 - And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:7 - And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:27 - And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:38 - And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:4 - The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:27 - And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 - Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:21 - Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:22 - Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5 - All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:14 - The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 - For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:10 - But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:11 - And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
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