χειμών
cheimṓn · G5494 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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winter
The coldest season of the year
ExamplesMatthew 24:20 “Moreover, pray that when you flee, it will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.
Mark 13:18 “Moreover, pray that it will not happen in winter.
2 Timothy 4:21 Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers and sisters.
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bad weather, stormy weather
Stormy weather involving strong wind, overcast sky, and often cold temperature; thunder and lightning may also be present
ExamplesMatthew 16:3 “And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but are you unable to discern the signs of the times?
Acts 27:20 Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was slowly abandoned.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίκειμαιto be on 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόbefore 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- גֶּשֶׁם geshem · H1653 · rain
- גֶּשֶׁם (geshem, H1653) denotes rain or shower as a meteorological phenomenon, while χειμών (cheimṓn, G5494) extends to encompass the broader concept of winter storm or the winter/rainy season itself, with rain as a defining characteristic.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Bad weather, stormy weather14.2
- Matthew 16:3 says, “in the morning, There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.”
- Winter67.165
- Matthew 24:20 has Jesus say, “pray that your flight will not be in winter, or on a Sabbath.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χειμῶνος, ὁ (χεῖμα, and this from χέω on account of the 'pouring' rains; (others connect…
a. stormy or rainy weather, a tempest (so from Homer down): Mt 16:3 (Tdf. brackets WH reject the passage); Acts 27:20.
b. winter, the winter season (so from Thucydides and Aristophanes down): Jn 10:22; 2 Tim 4:21; χειμῶνος, in winter (-time), in the winter (Plato, de rep. 3, p. 415 e.; Xenophon, mem. 3, 8, 9; others (cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26)), Mt 24:20; Mk 13:18.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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