# H3557 כּוּל

כּוּל (kûwl), Strong’s H3557: 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…

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*kûwl* — 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…

Occurs 37 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 45:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/45?v=11) — There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your…
- [Genesis 47:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=12) — Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their…
- [Genesis 50:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=21) — Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to…
- [2 Samuel 19:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=33) — Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at…
- [2 Samuel 19:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=34) — The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
- [2 Samuel 20:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=3) — David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the…
- [1 Kings 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/4?v=7) — Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make…
- [1 Kings 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=7) — Those officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, every man in his month…
- [1 Kings 7:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=26) — 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…
- [1 Kings 7:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=38) — He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every…