ἄμμος ámmos

Meaning

sand (as heaped on the beach)

In the King James Version: sand

Derivation: perhaps from G260 (ἅμα);

Where it is used

• Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
• Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
• Hebrews 11:12 And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
• Revelation 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.