Bible word study

Kol (Strong’s H3605): Meaning in the Bible

Kol (כֹּל) is the Hebrew word numbered H3605 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense). In the King James Bible it is translated (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough.

• Original wordכֹּל
• Transliterationkôl
• Pronunciationkole
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3605
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from H3634;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kol appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kol (H3605) stands behind 24 English renderings in 22 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (7), Exodus (5), Isaiah (4).

How the King James Bible renders Kol, by count

• all4 of 24 (17 percent)
• any2 of 24 (8 percent)
• every2 of 24 (8 percent)
• one2 of 24 (8 percent)
• whatsoever2 of 24 (8 percent)
• whole2 of 24 (8 percent)

Three places to read Kol

• Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
• Exodus 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
• Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kol in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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