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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79180" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79180" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Ἄμμος''''' ''' (Strong'S #285 — Noun [[Feminine]] — ammos — am'-mos ) </div> <p> "sand" or "sandy ground," describes (a) an insecure foundation, Matthew 7:26; (b) numberlessness, vastness, Romans 9:27; Hebrews 11:12; Revelation 20:8; (c) symbolically in Revelation 13:1 , RV, the position taken up by the [[Dragon]] (not, as in the AV, by John), in view of the rising of the Beast out of the sea (emblematic of the restless condition of nations; see SEA). </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53722" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53722" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_59386" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_59386" /> == | ||
<p> (חוֹל, ''Chol,'' from its tendency to [[Slide]] or ''Roll; Ἄμμος'' ). A similitude taken from the aggregate sand of the sea is often used to express a very great multitude or a very great weight; or from a single sand, something very mean and trifling. God promises [[Abraham]] and Jacob to multiply their posterity as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the sea ( Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12). Job (6:3) compares the weight of his misfortunes to that of the sand of the sea. Solomon says ( Proverbs 27:3) that though sand and gravel are very heavy things, yet the anger of a fool is much heavier. [[Ecclesiasticus]] says that a fool is more insupportable than the weight of sand, lead, or iron ( Sirach 22:15). The prophets magnify the omnipotence of God, who has fixed the sand of the shore for the boundaries of the sea, and has said to it, "Hitherto shalt thou come; but here thou shalt break thy foaming waves, and shalt pass no farther" ( Jeremiah 5:22). Our [[Savior]] tells us ( Matthew 7:26) that a fool lays the foundation of his house on the sand; whereas a wise man founds his house on a rock. Ecclesiasticus says (18:8) that the years of the longest life of man are but as a drop of water or as a grain of sand. Wisdom says (7:9) that all the gold in the world, compared to wisdom, is but as the smallest grain of sand. (See [[Dust]]). </p> | <p> ( '''''חוֹל''''' , ''Chol,'' from its tendency to [[Slide]] or ''Roll; '''''Ἄμμος''''' '' ). A similitude taken from the aggregate sand of the sea is often used to express a very great multitude or a very great weight; or from a single sand, something very mean and trifling. God promises [[Abraham]] and Jacob to multiply their posterity as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the sea ( Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12). Job (6:3) compares the weight of his misfortunes to that of the sand of the sea. Solomon says ( Proverbs 27:3) that though sand and gravel are very heavy things, yet the anger of a fool is much heavier. [[Ecclesiasticus]] says that a fool is more insupportable than the weight of sand, lead, or iron ( Sirach 22:15). The prophets magnify the omnipotence of God, who has fixed the sand of the shore for the boundaries of the sea, and has said to it, "Hitherto shalt thou come; but here thou shalt break thy foaming waves, and shalt pass no farther" ( Jeremiah 5:22). Our [[Savior]] tells us ( Matthew 7:26) that a fool lays the foundation of his house on the sand; whereas a wise man founds his house on a rock. Ecclesiasticus says (18:8) that the years of the longest life of man are but as a drop of water or as a grain of sand. Wisdom says (7:9) that all the gold in the world, compared to wisdom, is but as the smallest grain of sand. (See [[Dust]]). </p> | ||
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