Word

חֹרֶף

chôreph · H2779 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

autumn, winter

Cold season of the year; also time of plowing; opposite of קַיִץ; sometimes associated with hard work

Examples
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”
Psalm 74:17 You have established all the boundaries of the earth; You have created summer and winter.
Proverbs 20:4 The lazy one does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
prime of life

Time of harvest in life, when man has gained maturity and wisdom

Examples
Job 29:4 Just as I was in the days of my youth, When the protection of God was over my tent;

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יmy 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 2
יוֹםday, time 1

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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Near synonyms 1 word

סְתָו çᵉthâv · H5638 · rainy season, winter: סְתָו refers specifically to winter/autumn as a season, used in poetic contexts (Ps 74:17; Song 2:11). While both refer to cold/winter season, סְתָו appears more restricted to the rainy/stormy season aspect, making it a near synonym for the 'winter' sense of חֹרֶף.

Contrasting words 1 word

חֹם chôm · H2527 · heat, hot weather: חֹם (heat) is the lexical opposite of the 'cold' sense of חֹרֶף, representing warmth/heat versus cold/chill as temperature conditions.

In the other Testament 1 word

χειμών cheimṓn · G5494 · winter, bad weather, stormy weather: χειμών is the standard Greek equivalent for the winter season, directly corresponding to the 'winter' sense of חֹרֶף. Both refer to the cold season of the year and are used in seasonal/temporal contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Time002002002010: The word denotes winter or the cold season, a period of the year associated with youth's early stage in some figurative uses.

Word family 3 words

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

חָרַף châraph · H2778 · to reproach, to taunt, to insult · 41×חֶרְפָּה cherpâh · H2781 · shame, reproach, disgrace · 73×חֹרֶףchôreph · H2779

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2779. choreph חֹ֫רֶף noun masculine harvest-time, autumn (Arabic freshly gathered fruit,…

H2779. choreph
חֹ֫רֶף noun masculine harvest-time, autumn (Arabic freshly gathered fruit, autumn (also rain of autumn or beginning of winter) = Sabean (ןׅ חֿרפ DHMZMG 1875, xxix. 597; Sabean חֿרפם חֿרף, = year, compare Ethiopic annus currens Os (Levy)ZMG 1865, 168, 174 DHMZMG 1883, 369; Assyrian —arpu, SchrJPTh 1875, 341 KAT253n. = COTi. 54 n.) — absolute ׳ח Zec 14:8 Zec 14:5t.; suffix חָרְמִּי Job 29:4; — וָחֹרֶף קַיִץ Gen 8:22 (J), Psa 74:17; Zec 14:8; הַח ׳בֵּית autumn-house or palace Amo 3:15; Jer 36:22 (+ הַתְּשִׁיעִי בַּחֹדֶשׁ in the 9th month, i.e. Nov-Dec.); יַחֲרשׁ לֹא עָצֵל ׳מח Pro 20:4 a sluggard ploughs not after harvest; as implying maturity, חָרְמִּי בִּימֵי Job 29:4 in the days of my autumn (prime).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Time7 occurrences

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