כּוּל (kul) means “to sustain” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kool Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
כּוּל · kul · to sustain
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) (Hilpil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure 1d1) to contain 1d2) to sustain, endure
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a primitive root; properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
KJV glosses: (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).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| can endure | 2 |
| contain you | 2 |
| hold | 2 |
| it could hold | 2 |
| and i provided them | 1 |
| and i will provide | 1 |
| and sustain you | 1 |
| are guided | 1 |
| bear | 1 |
| can endure it | 1 |
| contain him | 1 |
| endure | 1 |
| for it holds | 1 |
| gathered supplies | 1 |
| had provided | 1 |
| he provided for them | 1 |
| holding | 1 |
| i will provide | 1 |
| in turn provided food | 1 |
| of holding it back | 1 |
| of holding it in | 1 |
| provided | 1 |
| providing them | 1 |
| sustain | 1 |
| to consume | 1 |
| to contain | 1 |
| to feed you | 1 |
| to provide food | 1 |
| to provide for you | 1 |
| who has held | 1 |
| will provide for | 1 |
| will sustain you | 1 |
| would arrange provisions | 1 |
| you sustained them | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and fed | 3 |
| cannot contain | 3 |
| to receive | 2 |
| and a nourisher | 1 |
| and comprehended | 1 |
| and he shall sustain | 1 |
| and held | 1 |
| and there will i nourish | 1 |
| and were all present | 1 |
| and who can abide | 1 |
| but who may abide | 1 |
| contained | 1 |
| didst thou sustain | 1 |
| he will guide | 1 |
| it contained | 1 |
| it containeth | 1 |
| made provision | 1 |
| nor feed | 1 |
| nourished | 1 |
| of sustenance | 1 |
| provided victual | 1 |
| shall not be able to abide | 1 |
| that can hold | 1 |
| there to sustain | 1 |
| to bear | 1 |
| to feed | 1 |
| which provided victuals | 1 |
| will sustain | 1 |
| with forbearing | 1 |
| with holding in | 1 |
| with me and i will feed | 1 |
| ye not i will nourish | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 37 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Read word by wordJoseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
Read word by wordTherefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.
Read word by wordHe will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Read word by wordBarzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.33
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.34
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
Read word by wordSolomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
Read word by wordEach month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.7
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
Read word by wordHe also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
Read word by wordBut will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Read word by wordOn that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
Read word by wordAnd you are to drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
Read word by word“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
Read word by wordfor when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
Read word by wordWas it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
Read word by wordThe Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.
Read word by wordBut who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.5
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
Read word by wordBut will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Read word by wordThen Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.
Read word by wordFor forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Read word by wordCast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.23
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Read word by wordThe spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Read word by wordWho has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
Read word by word“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Read word by wordBut I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
Read word by wordBut the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Read word by wordIf I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Read word by wordNow prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.33
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Read word by wordThe LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
Read word by wordThen Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
Read word by wordFor behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
Read word by wordBut who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
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