G5494

χειμών

cheimōnG:N-M

winter

χειμών, -ῶνος, ὁ [in LXX for גֶּשֶׁם, סְתָו ;] __1. winter: Jhn.10:22, 2Ti.4:21; genitive, χειμῶνος, in winter, Mat.24:20, Mrk.13:18. __2. Prop., a winter storm, hence, generally, a storm, tempest: Mat.16:3 (T, WH, R, mg., om.), Act.27:20.† (AS)

The KJV translates G5494 in the following manner:

winter (8x), tempest (2x), weather (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

χειμών — cheimṓn

χειμών, χειμῶνος, ὁ (χεῖμα, and this from χέω on account of the 'pouring' rains; (others connect it with χι(ων, snow, frost (cf. Latinhiems, etc.); see Curtius, § 194; Liddell and Scott, under the word χιών, at the end)), winter;

a. stormy or rainy weather, a tempest (so from Homer down): Mat 16:3 (Tdf. brackets WH reject the passage); Act 27:20.

b. winter, the winter season (so from Thucydides and Aristophanes down): Joh 10:22; 2Ti 4:21; χειμῶνος, in winter (-time), in the winter (Plato, de rep. 3, p. 415 e.; Xenophon, mem. 3, 8, 9; others (cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26)), Mat 24:20; Mar 13:18.

6 occurrences

Matthew (2), Mark (1), John (1), Acts (1), II Timothy (1)