noun · masculine
cheimōnos
Strong’sG5494
a tempest, the rainy season
stem cheimōn-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books2 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.
χειμών, -ῶνος, ὁ
[in LXX for גֶּשֶׁם, סְתָיו;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5494 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhi-mone'
akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter
Fromfrom a derivative of χέω (to pour;
King Jamestempest, foul weather, winter.
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
(χεῖμα) winter, χειμῶνος δυσθαλπέος ὅς ῥά τε ἔργων ἀνθρώπους ἀνέπαυσεν Refs 8th c.BC+; χειμῶνι in winter, Refs 5th c.BC+; also χειμῶνος in winter-time, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. μέσου in mid-winter, Refs 5th c.BC+in the course of the winter, Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ χειμῶνος, διὰ τοῦ χ., Refs 5th c.BC+during winter, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸν χ. during the winter, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄρος ἄβατον ὑπὸ χειμῶνος in consequence of the cold weather, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to καύματα, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 the wintry quarter of the heavens, the north, Βορέης καὶ χ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II wintry, stormy weather: generally, storm, ἐπεὶ οὖν χειμῶνα φύγον καὶ ἀθέσφατον ὄμβρον Refs 8th c.BC+; χ. νοτερός a storm of rain, Refs 5th c.BC+ because of the winter-storms, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, θεόσσυτος χ. storm of calamity sent by the gods, Refs 4th c.BC+; χ. καὶ κακῶν τρικυμίαRefs; δορὸς.. ἐν χειμῶνι in the storm of battle, Refs 5th c.BC+; θολερῷ.. χ. νοσήσας, of the madness of Ajax, Refs; χ. γήρως βαρύς, of life's winter, Refs 1st c.AD+; of a person, χ. ὁ μειρακίσκος ἐστὶ τοῖς φίλοις Refs 4th c.BC+: rare in Prose, of battle, Refs 1st c.AD+; of mental and moral trouble, Refs 4th c.BC+; χ. τοῦ κλύδωνος χαλεπώτερος, of pirates, Refs 4th c.AD+ to have trouble (in cutting teeth), Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | cheimōnos2×χειμών | cheimōnois |
| object accusative | cheimōnon | cheimōnoin |
| direct address vocative | cheimōnor | cheimōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | cheimōnou4×χειμῶνος | cheimōnoiu |
| to, for dative | cheimōno | cheimōnoi |
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
cheimōno 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
cheimōnos“stormy”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 16:3kai prōi; Sēmeron cheimōnos, purrazatō gar stugnazarōntos tos ouranos. tem …… the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and …
John 10:22… tote teim enkainieim en tei Hierosolumei; cheimōnos ate,… took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
cheimōnou“winter”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 24:20… hina mē geneteia tas fugas vu cheimōnou mēde sabbate;… flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
Mark 13:18proseuchovōr de hina mē geneteia cheimōnou;… this will not occur in the winter.
Acts 27:20“tempest”… mēte astreiu epifanarōnteiu epi polloterain hēmerain, cheimōnou tē ouk oligou epikeiorōntou, loipem periairote …… neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope …
2 Timothy 4:21Spoudazasar pro cheimōnou erchara. Aspazotō sin Euboulos kai Poudos …… effort to come to me before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, as do …