Autumn
חֹ֫רֶףStrong’s H2779choreph (cho-reph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choreph is the Hebrew word usually translated “winter”, “prime my” and “from winter”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Harvest time, autumn
- (CLBL) winter
How it's translated
- and winter 2
- the winter 2
- prime my 1
- from winter 1
- and in the winter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Amos 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Job 29:4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
- Psalms 74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Jeremiah 36:22Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
- Amos 3:15And 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.
Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫רֶף choreph · autumn
1) harvest time, autumn 2) (CLBL) winter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “autumn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AU'TUMN, noun
au'tum. [Latin autumnus, 'Etymon multum torquetur.']
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.