Word

ἄμμος

ámmos · G285 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

sand

A granular material, as heaped on the beach

Examples
Matthew 7:26 “And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL MAY BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, ONLY THE REMNANT WILL BE SAVED;
Hebrews 11:12 Therefore even from one man, and one who was as good as dead at that, there were born descendants who were just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand along the seashore.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

θάλασσαsea, lake 3

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

χεῖλοςlips, shore 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀναρίθμητοςcountless 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀριθμόςnumber 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 4

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

חוֹל chôwl · H2344 · sand: Greek ἄμμος and Hebrew חוֹל both denote sand as the granular material found on beaches or in desert contexts, representing a direct cross-linguistic equivalent without meaningful semantic distinction.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Beach1.64: In Revelation 13:1, “the dragon stood on the sand (ámmon) of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea,” where the phrase locates the dragon standing at the shore itself, the beach as a place.
Sand2.28: In Hebrews 11:12, Abraham's descendants are said to be “just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand (ámmos) along the seashore,” naming the countless individual grains of the substance itself.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἡ, sand; see. to a Hebrew comparison ἄμμος τῆς θαλάσσης and ἄμμος ἡ παρά τό χεῖλος τῆς…

ἡ, sand; see. to a Hebrew comparison ἄμμος τῆς θαλάσσης and ἄμμος ἡ παρά τό χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης are used for an innumerable multitude, Rom 9:27; Heb 11:12; Rev 20:8, equivalent to Revelation 12:18 (Rev 13:1). According to the context sandy ground, Mt 7:26. (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus often, Plutarch, the Sept. often.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Land in Contrast With the Sea1 occurrence Earth, Mud, Sand, Rock4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0