Strong's Hebrew · H2779

חֹרֶף

chôreph · kho'-ref

cold, winter (-house), youth.

Definition

properly, the crop gathered, i.e. (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively, ripeness of age

Derivation

from H2778 (חָרַף);

Appears 7 times in Scripture

Psalms 74:17

You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

Proverbs 20:4

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Jeremiah 36:22

Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.

Zechariah 14:8

And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.

Amos 3:15

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

Job 29:4

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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