סְתָו
çᵉthâv · H5638 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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rainy season, winter
The cold season of the year, which is characterized by a lot of precipitation
ExamplesSong of Solomon 2:11 ‘For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָבַרto pass 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
- חֹרֶף chôreph · H2779 · autumn, winter, prime of life
- Hebrew חֹרֶף is the common biblical Hebrew term for winter/rainy season, semantically overlapping with the rarer סְתָו as a designation for the cold/wet season
Contrasting words 1 word
- קַיִץ qayits · H7019 · summer, summer-fruit
- Hebrew קַיִץ (summer) stands as the lexical opposite season to סְתָו (winter) in the biblical seasonal cycle
In the other Testament 1 word
- χειμών cheimṓn · G5494 · winter, bad weather, stormy weather
- Greek χειμών is the standard LXX and NT term for winter/winter season, the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew סְתָו
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- Winter, occurring only in the Song of Solomon's description of spring's arrival, when the rains of winter are past and gone.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5638. sethav סתו Kt, סְתָיו Qr noun masculine winter (loan-word from Aramaic; compare…
סתו Kt, סְתָיו Qr noun masculine winter (loan-word from Aramaic; compare Syriac , סִיתְוָא ᵑ7; Arabic Lane1504; probably originally ׳שׂ, compare SchwIdioticon 64; on ו as old nominative ending (׳ס for šutayu) compare LagBN 190 Anm.); — עָבָ֑ר הַסְּתָ֯ו Son 2:11.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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