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ἄμμος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ἄμμος, ου, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
ammos
Simplified transliteration: 
ammos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
285
GK Number: 
302
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
5
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2b
Gloss: 
sand, often used as a figure of things that cannot be counted
Definition: 
sand, Mt. 7:26; Rom. 9:27; Heb. 11:12; Rev. 12:18, 20*

Greek-English Concordance for ἄμμος

Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of mine, and does not do them, will be like the foolish man who built his house on sand (ammon | ἄμμον | acc sg fem).
Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Even if the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand (ammos | ἄμμος | nom sg fem) of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;
Hebrews 11:12 And so it was that from this one man, and he was already impotent, there were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number and as innumerable as the grains of sand (ammos | ἄμμος | nom sg fem) along the shore of the sea
Revelation 12:18
Revelation 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. In number they are as the sand (ammos | ἄμμος | nom sg fem) of the sea.