# כּוּל (kul) Israeli respelling: kul. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H3557. 36 Old Testament occurrences. properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses) King James renderings: (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). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kul-h3557 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 45:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/11) — And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to povert… - [Genesis 47:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/12) — And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families. - [Genesis 50:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/21) — Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. - [Ruth 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/15) — And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is be… - [2 Samuel 19:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/32) — Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he wa… - [2 Samuel 19:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/33) — And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. - [2 Samuel 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/3) — And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them… - [1 Kings 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/7) — And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made… - [1 Kings 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/27) — And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked… - [1 Kings 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/26) — And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousan… - [1 Kings 7:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/38) — Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one… - [1 Kings 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/27) — But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have… - [1 Kings 8:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/64) — The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and m… - [1 Kings 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/4) — And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. - [1 Kings 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/9) — Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. - [1 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/4) — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and f… - [1 Kings 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/13) — Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in… - [1 Kings 20:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/27) — And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like… - [2 Chronicles 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/6) — But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a… - [2 Chronicles 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/5) — And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received… - [2 Chronicles 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/18) — But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this hou… - [2 Chronicles 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/7) — Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat… - [Nehemiah 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/21) — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelle… - [Psalms 55:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/22) — Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. - [Psalms 112:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/5) — A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. - [Proverbs 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/14) — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? - [Isaiah 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/12) — Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a mea… - [Jeremiah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/13) — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,… - [Jeremiah 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/11) — Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly… - [Jeremiah 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/10) — But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall no… - [Jeremiah 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/9) — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my… - [Ezekiel 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/32) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contai… - [Joel 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/11) — And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of th… - [Amos 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/10) — Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Is… - [Zechariah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/16) — For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal th… - [Malachi 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/2) — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: