ψυχρός
psychrós · G5593 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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cold
Pertaining to being cold, as of objects and masses
ExamplesMatthew 10:42 “And whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”
Revelation 3:15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.
Revelation 3:16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ζεστός zestós · G2200 · hot
- Lexical antonym meaning 'hot' or 'boiling'; appears alongside ψυχρός in Revelation 3:15-16 as the opposite temperature state
In the other Testament 2 words
- קַר qar · H7119 · cool, even-tempered, cool-headed
- Direct Hebrew equivalent for 'cold' in temperature or figurative sense; used literally (Gen 8:22, Jer 18:14) and can describe coldness/indifference metaphorically
- קָרָה qârâh · H7135 · cold
- Hebrew noun for 'coldness' or 'cold,' parallel sense to ψυχρός; occurs in contexts describing cold weather or cold water (Prov 25:25, Job 37:9)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cold79.77
- Revelation 3:15 says, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.”
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ψυχρα, ψυχρόν (ψύχω, which see), from Homer down, cold, cool: neuter of cold water,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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