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Koine Greek wordlink #109580

SR GNT Rom 9:27 ἄμμος (ammos) ‘of Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl) as the sand of the sea the’ Strongs=2850 Lemma=ammos
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ἄμμος (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἄμμος’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘sand’.

Heb 11:12 ‘and as the sand by the lip’ SR GNT Heb 11:12 word 21

OET-LV: 12 Therefore also from one man they _were _born, and these having _been _made _dead: as the stars of _the sky the in _multitude, and as the sand, which by the lip of _the sea, the innumerable. (HEB_11:12)

OET-RV: 12 So it was that descendants came from that one man in his old age and they became as numerous as the stars in the sky and uncountable like grains of sand on the beach. (HEB 11:12)

Rev 20:8 ‘of them is like the sand of the sea’ SR GNT Rev 20:8 word 31

OET-LV: 8 and he _will _be _coming _out to _deceive the nations which in the four corners of _the earth, the Gōg/(Gōg) and Magōg/(Māgōg), to _gather _together them to the war, of _whom the number of _them is like the sand of _the sea. (REV_20:8)

OET-RV: 8 and he’ll go out to deceive the nations right around the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them together to battle. They’ll be too many to count like the sand on the beach. (REV 20:8)

Greek words (2) other than ἄμμος (N-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘sand’

MAT 7:26 ἄμμον (ammon) N-AFS ‘house on the sand’ SR GNT Mat 7:26 word 25

OET-LV: 26 And everyone which hearing the these messages of _me and not doing them, will _be _being _likened to_a_ foolish _man, who built the house of _him on the sand. (MAT_7:26)

OET-RV: 26 “But anyone who hears these messages of mine and doesn’t put them into practice, they can be likened to a stupid person who built their house on the sand. (MAT 7:26)

REV 12:18 ἄμμον (ammon) N-AFS ‘he was stood on the sand of the sea’ SR GNT Rev 12:18 word 6

OET-LV: 18 And he _was _stood on the sand of _the sea. (REV_12:18)

OET-RV: 18 Then the dinosaur stood on the beach by the ocean (REV 12:18)

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular