noun · masculine
cheimarros
Strong’sG5493
a winter torrent
stem cheimarr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χείμμαρος (shortened form of the more usual -οος, Attic contr., -ους), -ον
(< χεῖμα, ῥέω) [in LXX chiefly for נַחַל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5493 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhi'-mar-hros
a storm-runlet, i.e. winter-torrent
Fromfrom the base of G5494 and G4482;
King Jamesbrook.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
contraction χειμάρρους, ουν, and shortened χείμαρρος, ον: (χεῖμα, ῥέω):— winter-flowing, swollen by rain and melted snow, of mountain-streams,
I joined with ποταμός, ὅν τε [the stone] ποταμὸς χειμάρροος ὤσῃ Refs 8th c.BC+: frequently in contracted forms, ποταμῷ πλήθοντι ἐοικὼς χειμάρρῳ Refs 6th c.BC+
I.2 πλεκτάνη χειμάρροος seems to be rushing, furious lightning Refs 4th c.BC+
II substantive, torrent, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 simply, river, LXX
II.3 drain, gutter, οἱ ἐκ τῶν οἰκιῶν χ. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 valley, watercourse, LXX+2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | cheimarros | cheimarrois |
| object accusative | cheimarron | cheimarroin |
| direct address vocative | cheimarror | cheimarroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | cheimarrou1×χειμάρρου | cheimarroiu |
| to, for dative | cheimarro | cheimarroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
cheimarro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
cheimarrou“valley”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 18:1… sun toi mathētoi autou peran tou cheimarrou tou Kedrōn hopou ate kēpos, eis …… with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.