H2779: חֹרֶף
chôreph · pronounced kho'-ref · “autumn”
Definition
properly, the crop gathered, i.e. (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively, ripeness of age
KJV translates it as: cold, winter (-house), youth.
Word origin: from H2778 (חָרַף);
Extended definition
2) (CLBL) winter
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2779 is translated
- winter ×6
- my ×1
Bible verses with H2779 (chôreph)
Chôreph appears in 7 verses.
- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Job 29:4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
- Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Jeremiah 36:22
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
- Amos 3:15
And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.
- Zechariah 14:8
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.