The word in Scripture

Sand in the Bible

The word sand appears 28 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Sand pictures both multitude and an unstable foundation. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What sand means in the Bible

Sand pictures both multitude and an unstable foundation.

Where the word sand appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word sand appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.”Genesis 41:49

“He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:”Psalms 78:27

“If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”Psalms 139:18

“A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.”Proverbs 27:3

“Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:”Romans 9:27

“Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.”Hebrews 11:12

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.”Revelation 13:1

“And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”Revelation 20:8