Chol denotes sand, most often used as the measure for an immense or uncountable multitude, and also as a tangible material.

The attested uses chiefly employ chol as the familiar measure of a multitude too great to number, whether people, offspring, grain, days, birds, or thoughts are compared with it. Other verses treat it as a physical material: something that can conceal a body, hold hidden treasures, bear weight, or mark the sea's boundary.

1. Measure of vast or uncountable quantity · dominant

   The singular noun is used in comparisons for abundance or uncountability. In Genesis 22:17 the APB renders offspring as multiplied "as the sand that is on the seashore," while Jeremiah 33:22 sets the sea's sand alongside what "cannot be measured"; Joshua 11:4 similarly describes a very numerous force "like the sand on the seashore."

   Genesis 22:17Genesis 41:49Joshua 11:4Isaiah 10:22Jeremiah 33:22Psalm 139:18
2. Tangible material in land and sea settings · occasional

   The noun also names material with concrete physical uses or properties. In Exodus 2:12 the APB renders the Egyptian as hidden "in the sand"; Deuteronomy 33:19 speaks of "hidden treasures of the sand," Proverbs 27:3 says that it has weight, and Jeremiah 5:22 presents it as the sea's boundary.

   Exodus 2:12Deuteronomy 33:19Jeremiah 5:22Proverbs 27:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as "sand" in comparisons such as "sand of the sea" or "sand on the seashore," and also in concrete clauses about concealment, weight, and the sea's boundary. Its omission of an evident English counterpart in some supplied verses does not isolate the term's contribution there.