Sand

"sand" or "sandy ground," describes (a) an insecure foundation, Mat 7:26; (b) numberlessness, vastness, Rom 9:27, Heb 11:12, Rev 20:8; (c) symbolically in Rev 13:1, RV, the position taken up by the Dragon (not, as in the AV, by John), in view of the rising of the Beast out of the sea (emblematic of the restless condition of nations; see SEA).