{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3557",
  "lemma": "כּוּל",
  "transliteration": "kûwl",
  "definition": "properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)",
  "kjv": "(be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing…",
  "occurrences": 37,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[כּוּל] vb. comprehend, contain",
    "Qal who hath comprehended the dust of the earth in a shalish-measure",
    "Pilp. sustain, maintain, contain",
    "Polp. were supplied with food",
    "Hiph. contain, hold, hold in, endure"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 45:11",
      "text": "There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 47:12",
      "text": "Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 50:21",
      "text": "Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 19:33",
      "text": "Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 19:34",
      "text": "The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 20:3",
      "text": "David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 4:7",
      "text": "Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/4?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 5:7",
      "text": "Those officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, every man in his month…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 7:26",
      "text": "It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 7:38",
      "text": "He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=38"
    }
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