Topic
Winter
15 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 8:22ISBE · Nave · Torrey Annual return of, will never cease
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Song of Songs 2:11ISBE · Nave · Torrey Rainy season in, in Canaan
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
- Jeremiah 36:22ISBE · Nave · Torrey Summer and winter houses
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
- Amos 3:15ISBE · Nave · Torrey Summer and winter houses
And 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.
- Acts 27:12ISBE · Nave · Torrey Shipping suspended in, on the Mediterranean Sea
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
- Psalms 74:17ISBE · Torrey God makes
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Proverbs 20:4Nave · Torrey Plowing in, in Canaan, (margin)
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Acts 28:11Nave · Torrey Shipping suspended in, on the Mediterranean Sea
And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
- Isaiah 18:6ISBE
They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
- Zechariah 14:8ISBE
And 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.
- Matthew 24:20Torrey UNSUITED FOR — Travelling
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
- John 10:22Torrey Coldness and inclemency of, noticed
¶ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
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- Acts 27:9 Torrey UNSUITED FOR — Navigation
- 2 Timothy 4:21 Torrey UNSUITED FOR — Travelling
- Titus 3:12 Nave Paul remains for one, at Nicopolis
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
win'-ter (choreph, from charaph, "to inundate," "overflow"): The rainy season, also the autumn harvest season (Ge 8:22; Ps 74:17; Zec 14:8). It is also the time of cold (Jer 36:22; Am 3:15). The verb "to winter" occurs in Isa 18:6. Cethaw has the same meaning as Choreph (So 2:11). cheimon, corresponds to choreph as the rainy season, and the verb paracheimazo, signifies "to pass the winter" (Ac 27:12), the noun from which is paracheimasia (same place).
See SEASONS.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 8 references, grouped by sub-topic
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 12 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.