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Strong's #3557: kuwl (pronounced 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).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kûl

1) to seize, contain, measure

1a) (Qal) to measure, calculate

1b) (Pilpel) to sustain, maintain, contain

1b1) to sustain, support, nourish

1b2) to contain, hold in, restrain

1b3) to support, endure

1c) (Polpal) to be supplied

1d) (Hiphil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure

1d1) to contain

1d2) to sustain, endure

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 38 times:

Genesis 45:11: "And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest"
Genesis 47:12: "And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household,"
Genesis 50:21: "ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly"
Ruth 4:15: "And he shall be of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law,"
2 Samuel 19:32: "and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he"
2 Samuel 19:33: "Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 20:3: "the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto"
1 Kings 4:7: "officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household:"
1 Kings 4:7: "and his household: each man his month in a year made provision."
1 Kings 4:27: "And those provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came"
1 Kings 7:26: "of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths."
1 Kings 7:38: "of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver"
1 Kings 8:27: "and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house"
1 Kings 8:64: "was before the LORD was too little to receive to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings,"
1 Kings 17:4: "of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
1 Kings 17:9: "a widow woman there to sustain"
1 Kings 18:4: "and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
1 Kings 18:13: "of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed"
1 Kings 20:27: "And the children were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel"
2 Chronicles 2:6: "the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that"
2 Chronicles 4:5: "with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths."
2 Chronicles 6:18: "and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which"
2 Chronicles 7:7: "Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings,"
Nehemiah 9:21: "Yea, forty didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old,"
Psalms 55:22: "upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous"
Psalms 112:5: "showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion."
Proverbs 18:14: "The spirit will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?"
Isaiah 40:12: "and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed"
Jeremiah 2:13: "broken cisterns, that can hold no water."
Jeremiah 6:11: "the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,"
Jeremiah 10:10: "the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation."
Jeremiah 20:9: "shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not"
Ezekiel 21:28: "the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:"
Ezekiel 23:32: "thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much."
Joel 2:11: "and very terrible; and who can abide"
Amos 7:10: "of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words."
Zechariah 11:16: "heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat,"
Malachi 3:2: "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth?"









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