Greek noun (masculine) · G5494
χειμών
cheimonkhi-mone'
winter; Prop., a winter storm, hence, generally
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: cheimṓn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5494is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5494
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
The King James renders it: tempest, foul weather, winter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
cheimon is rendered "winter; Prop., a winter storm, hence, generally". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "winter".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 16:3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
Matthew 16:3χειμών
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: winter, and Prop., a winter storm, hence, generally.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| winterJhn.10:22, 2Ti.4:21; genitive, χειμῶνος, in winter, Mat.24:20, Mrk.13:18. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 24:20Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath. |
| Prop., a winter storm, hence, generallya storm, tempest | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 16:3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χειμῶνος3
- χειμών1
- χειμὼν1
- χειμῶνός1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular4N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
Matthew
two uses
and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
- χειμώνcheimonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a storm
Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
- χειμῶνοςcheimonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: in winter
Mark
one use
Pray that this will not occur in the winter.
- χειμῶνοςcheimonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: in winter
John
one use
At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
- χειμὼνcheimonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: winter
Acts
one use
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
- χειμῶνόςcheimonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: tempest
2 Timothy
one use
Make every effort to come to me before winter. Eubulus sends you greetings, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
- χειμῶνοςcheimonosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: winter
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.