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ὄψιμος

ópsimos · G3797 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. late rain, spring rain

    (Derivative of ὄψιος ‘late,’, and used absolutely of ‘late rain’) A rain that comes late in the season, that is to say, in April or May after the normal rains of the winter season have passed

    Examples

    James 5:7 Therefore be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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In the other Testament 1 word
מַלְקוֹשׁ malqôwsh · H4456 · latter rain, spring rain
Both terms specifically denote the spring/latter rain in agricultural contexts, as opposed to early/autumn rain; מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqôwsh, H4456) is the Hebrew term for this seasonal phenomenon, ὄψιμος (ópsimos, G3797) its Greek equivalent in LXX translation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Late rain, spring rain14.13
ὄψιμος names the late or spring rain of the agricultural season, as James urges patient endurance: “the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.” (James 5:7)
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ὄπισθεν ópisthen · G3693 · from behind, behind, the back of · 7×ὀπίσω opísō · G3694 · behind, in back of, after · 35×ὄψιος ópsios · G3798 · late, late in the day, evening · 14×ὀψέ opsé · G3796 · late, late in the day, evening · 4×ὄψιμοςópsimos · G3797
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὄψιμον (ὀψέ), late, latter (Homer, Iliad 2, 325; ὀψιμωτατος σπόρος, Xenophon, oec. 17,…
ὄψιμον (ὀψέ), late, latter (Homer, Iliad 2, 325; ὀψιμωτατος σπόρος, Xenophon, oec. 17, 4f; ἐν τοῖς ὀψιμοις τῶν ὑδάτων, of the time of subsidence of the waters of the Nile, Diodorus 1, 10; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 51f)): ὄψιμον ὑετόν, the latter or vernal rain, which falls chiefly in the months of March and April just before the harvest (opposed to the autumnal or πρώϊμος (cf. B. D. under the word )), Jas 5:7 (but L T Tr WH omit ὑετόν, the Sinaiticus manuscript and a few other authorities substitute καρπόν); the Sept. for מַלְקושׁ, Deut 11:14; Jer 5:24; Hos 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zech 10:1.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Rain1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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