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Esther 4:3
“And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3605 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- Derivation
- or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from H3634 (כָּלַל);
- KJV renderings
- (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בְ — preposition
- כָל — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 5,417 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:21Genesis 1:21Genesis 1:25Genesis 1:26Genesis 1:26
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כֹּל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.