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Frost

חֲנָמֵלStrong’s H2602

chanamal (cha-na-mal)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chanamal is the Hebrew word usually translated “flood”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.”
Psalms 78:47 KJV
Meaning
  1. Frost, flood, sleet (meaning uncertain)that which destroyed the sycamore trees
How it's translated
  • with a flood 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חֲנָמֵל chanamal · frost

    1) frost, flood, sleet (meaning uncertain) 1a) that which destroyed the sycamore trees

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “frost” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    FROST, noun

    1. A fluid congealed by cold into ice or crystals; as hoar-frost, which is dew or vapor congealed.“He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes” Psalms 147:16
    2. The act of freezing; congelation of fluids.
    3. In physiology, that state or temperature of the air which occasions freezing or the coagelation of water.
    4. The appearance of plants sparkling with icy crystals.
    All definitions and other forms of “frost”

      FROST, verb transitive

      1. In cookery, to cover or sprinkle with a composition of sugar, resembling hoar-frost; as, to frost cake.
      2. To cover with any thing resembling hoarfrost.

      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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.