Cheimon means “winter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5494 — cur (“degenerate”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5494 χειμών (cheimon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. cheimon (khei-mone') n. 1. by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter [from a derivative of cheo "to pour" (akin to the base of G5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain)] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include winter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
cheimon (khei-mone') n. 1. by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter [from a derivative of cheo "to pour" (akin to the base of G5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain)] KJV: tempest, foul weather, winter See also: G5490
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5494. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
winter
Usage: 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 English word each shown verse actually uses to render cheimon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5494 (χειμών) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth, And the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.
For, behold, the winter is past, The rain is gone, it has departed.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And all the multitude sat in the broad court of the temple, trembling because of the present foul weather.
so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of thy children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.
He that buildeth his house with other men’s money Is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5494.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth, And the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.
For, behold, the winter is past, The rain is gone, it has departed.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
And all the multitude sat in the broad court of the temple, trembling because of the present foul weather.
so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of thy children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.
He that buildeth his house with other men’s money Is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5494, grouped by book.
Cheimon (Strong's G5494) is a Greek word most simply glossed "winter". cheimon (khei-mone') n. 1. by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter [from a derivative of cheo "to pour" (akin to the base of G5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain)]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G5494 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5494 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as winter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5494, with linked reader references where each row is available.