# G285 ἄμμος

ἄμμος (ámmos), Strong’s G285: sand (as heaped on the beach) KJV: sand. Occurs 45 times.

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*ámmos* — sand (as heaped on the beach)

KJV: sand

Derived from [ἅμα háma](https://besorah.bible/word/G260) (at the "same" time)

Occurs 45 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 7:26](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/7?v=26) — Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
- [Romans 9:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/9?v=27) — Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant…
- [Hebrews 11:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/11?v=12) — Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were…
- [Revelation 12:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/12?v=18) — 
- [Revelation 20:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/20?v=8) — and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them…
- [Judith 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/2?v=20) — A great company of various nations went out with them like locusts and like the sand of the earth. For they could not…
- [Sirach 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/1?v=10) — 
- [Sirach 18:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/18?v=9) — 
- [Sirach 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/22?v=13) — 
- [1 Maccabees 11:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/11?v=1) — Then the king of Egypt gathered together great forces, as the sand which is by the sea shore, and many ships, and…