Choreph חֹ֫רֶף
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| חֹ֫רֶף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | choreph |
| Strong's number | H2779 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | autumn |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Genesis (1) |
Choreph (Hebrew חֹ֫רֶף, Strong's H2779) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “autumn”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) harvest time, autumn
2) (CLBL) winter
2) (CLBL) winter
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | winter (4), youth (1), cold (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | winter (3), my prime (1), season (1), his winter (1), winter alike (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Choreph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Job
- Job 29:4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
Psalms
- Psalm 74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.
Proverbs
- Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 36:22Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
Amos
- Amos 3:15And 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.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.
Zechariah
- Zechariah 14:8And 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.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.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).