Wind
ἄνεμοςStrong’s G0417anemos
Appears in 29 verses of the New Testament
In short
Anemos is the Greek word usually translated “wind” and “winds”. It appears in 29 verses of the New Testament.
“These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;”
Meaning
Usually translated “wind” and “winds”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- wind 15
- winds 11
- of wind 2
- a wind 2
- by a wind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 9
- Mark 6
- Luke 4
- Acts 4
- Revelation 2
- John 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 7:25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Matthew 8:26And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
- Matthew 8:27But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
- Matthew 11:7And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
- Matthew 14:24But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
Greek dictionary
ἄνεμος anemos · wind
ἄνεμος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for רוּחַ ;] wind: Mat.11:7 14:24, 30 14:32, Mrk.4:37, 39 4:41 6:48, 51, Luk.7:24 8:23-24, Jhn.6:13, Act.27:7, 14-15, Jas.3:4, Rev.6:13 7:1; pl., Mat.7:25, 27 8:26-27, Luk.8:25, Act.27:4, Ju 12; οἱ τέσσαρες ἄ. τῆς γῆς, Rev.7:1; hence the four quarters of the heavens (see Deiss., BS, 248; MM, VGT, see word), Mat.24:31, Mrk.13:27; metaphorically, of variable teaching, Eph 414.† SYN.: πνεῦμα, πνοή (and cf. θύελλα, λαῖλαψ). (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WIND, noun
[Latin, G. The primary sense is to move, flow, rush or drive along.]
- Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
- The four winds, the cardinal points of the heavens.“Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain” Ezekiel 37:9
- Direction of the wind from other points of the compass than the cardinal, or any point of compass; as a compass of eight winds.
- Breath; power of respiration.
All definitions
- Air in motion form any force or action; as the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
- Breath modulated by the organs or by an instrument.
- Air impregnated with scent.
- Any thing insignificant or light as wind
- Flatulence; air generated in the stomach and bowels; as, to be troubled with wind
- The name given to a disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.