Lexical Summary cheimōn: winter, a storm Original Word: χειμώνTransliteration: cheimōn Phonetic Spelling: (khi-mone') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: winter, a storm Meaning: winter, a storm Strong's Concordance tempest, foul weather, winter. From a derivative of cheo (to pour; akin to the base of chasma through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. Winter -- tempest, foul weather, winter. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5494: χειμώνχειμών, χειμῶνος, ὁ (χεῖμα, and this from χέω on account of the 'pouring' rains; (others connect it with χι(ων, snow, frost (cf. Latinhiems, etc.); see Curtius, § 194; Liddell and Scott, under the word χιών, at the end)), winter; a. stormy or rainy weather, a tempest (so from Homer down): Matthew 16:3 (Tdf. brackets WH reject the passage); Acts 27:20. b. winter, the winter season (so from Thucydides and Aristophanes down): John 10:22; 2 Timothy 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)), Matthew 24:20; Mark 13:18. |
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