χιών
chiṓn · G5510 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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snow
Snow, the word for snow, as used in describing something as white as snow
ExamplesMatthew 28:3 And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
Revelation 1:14 His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- שֶׁלֶג sheleg · H7950 · snow, soap
- Greek χιών renders Hebrew שֶׁלֶג directly as the standard translation equivalent for 'snow' across all contexts (meteorological phenomenon, color metaphor, descriptive imagery).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Snow2.12
- Matthew 28:3 describes the angel who appeared at the tomb, “his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow”.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χιόνος, ἡ, from Homer down, the Sept. for שֶׁלֶג, snow: Mt 28:3; Mk 9:3 (where it is…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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