Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
KJV Usage: (be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כּוּל (kul) — to sustain. 1) to seize, contain, measure 1a)(Qal) to measure, calculate 1b) (Pilpel) to sustain, maintain, contain 1b1) to sustain, support, nourish 1b2) to contain, hold in, restrain 1b3) to support, endure 1c) (Polpal) to be supplied 1d) (Hilpil) to contain, hold, hold in, endure 1d1) to contain 1d2) to sustain, endure
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Contain | verb qal, verb pi, verb hif
to hold, to contain, to accommodate = state in which a container is able to accomodate something within its available space
1KI 7:26 · 1KI 7:38 · 1KI 8:27 · 1KI 8:64 · 2CH 2:5 · 2CH 4:5 · 2CH 6:18 · 2CH 7:7 · ISA 40:12 · JER 2:13 · EZK 23:32
Care | verb pi, verb pu'al
to provide for literally: to cause to contain; hence: = causative action by which humans, animals or deities ensure that (other) humans received the food and care that they need
GEN 45:11 · GEN 47:12 · GEN 50:21 · RUT 4:15 · 2SA 19:33 · 2SA 19:34 · 2SA 20:3 · 1KI 4:7 · 1KI 4:7 · 1KI 5:7 · 1KI 17:4 · 1KI 17:9 · 1KI 18:4 · 1KI 18:13 · 1KI 20:27 · NEH 9:21 · PSA 55:23 · ZEC 11:16
1 ZEC 11:16 NJPS "sustain the frail" REB "nurse the sickly" NJB "support the swollen" | NIV "feed the healthy" (NRSV GNT) 2 ISA 40:12 NIV NRSV REB NJB GNT understand the meaning here as "to hold in" | NJPS as "to measure with", in accordance with the parallel verbs
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כּוּל] vb. comprehend, contain Qal who hath comprehended the dust of the earth in a shalish-measure
Pilp. sustain, maintain, contain
Polp. were supplied with food
Hiph. contain, hold, hold in, endure
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