Topic
Weather
6 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 37:22ISBE · Nave Sayings concerning
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
- Matthew 16:2ISBE · Nave Signs of
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
- Matthew 16:3ISBE · Nave Signs of
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
- Job 37:9Nave Sayings concerning
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- Job 37:17Nave Sayings concerning
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
- Proverbs 25:20ISBE
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
weth'-er (zahabh (Job 37:22), yom (Pr 25:20), translated "day"; eudia, "clear sky," cheimon, "tempest"): In the East it is not customary to talk of the weather as in the West. There seems to be no word in the Hebrew corresponding to "weather." In Job 37:22 the King James Version translates "Fair weather comes out of the north," but the Revised Version (British and American) translates more literally, "Out of the north cometh golden splendor." "As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather (or literally, "on a cold day"), .... so is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart" (Pr 25:20).
Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for their lack of spiritual foresight when they took such interest in natural foresight. He said, "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering" (Mt 16:2,3). The general conditions of the weather in the different seasons are less variable in Palestine than in colder countries, but the precise weather for a given day is very hard to predict on account of the proximity of the mountains, the desert and the sea.
Alfred H. Joy
In the topical indexes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.