Strong’s H3605 · Hebrew

כֹּל
kôl
kole

Definition

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

Etymology

or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from H3634 (כָּלַל);

Where the KJV renders it

  • (in) all (manner
  • (ye))
  • altogether
  • any (manner)
  • enough
  • every (one
  • place
  • thing)
  • howsoever
  • as many as
  • (no-) thing
  • ought
  • whatsoever
  • (the) whole
  • whoso(-ever)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

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