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  • 1 χειμών

    χειμών, ῶνος, ὁ(Hom.+, in var. senses relating to inclement/bad weather; contexts usually qualify the specific character of such weather, for which a receptor language may have discrete terms)
    stormy weather, bad weather, storm (Hom. et al.; Sb 998 [16/17 A.D.]; LXX; En 101:4; Test12Patr; Joseph.) σήμερον χειμών today it will be stormy (weather) Mt 16:3. On the sea, storm, bad weather: χειμῶνος οὐκ ὀλίγου ἐπικειμένου with some rather bad weather pressing upon them (indicative of a low-pressure area) Ac 27:20. For this pass. many render storm (cp. Demosth. 18, 194; Diod S 11, 13, 1 χ. μέγας=a severe storm; TestNapht 6:9; Jos., Ant. 6, 91; 14, 377; fig.: Philo, Congr. Erud. Gr. 93 [opp. γαλήνη] and Tat. 6, 3 a ‘squall’ of stupidity); based, according to Warnecke, Romfahrt 41 (n. 10; s. also p. 46), on misconceptions relating to meteorological conditions and geographical data and without due accounting of the unlikely feat of sailing through a violent storm for two weeks (Ac 27:27; s. Romfahrt 41–54).
    the season of bad weather, winter (Hom., Hdt., Thu., Aristoph.+; ins, pap; SSol 2:11; En 2:2; TestZeb 6:8; Philo; Jos., Ant. 14, 376; Ar. 4, 2) J 10:22 (short clause as Polyaenus 7, 44, 2 πόλεμος ἦν, exc. 36, 8). χειμῶνος in winter (Pla., Rep. 3, 415e; X., Mem. 3, 8, 9; Appian, Illyr. 24 §70; SIG 495, 104f; cp. ἐν χειμῶνι TestSol 10:7 C) Mt 24:20; Mk 13:18. πρὸ χειμῶνος before winter (sets in) 2 Ti 4:21.—In imagery: χειμών ἐστί τινι Hs 3, 2; 4, 2; τῷ χειμῶνι τὰ δένδρα ἀποβάλλειν τὰ φύλλα the trees shed their leaves in winter 3:3.—B. 1013. DELG s.v. χεῖμα. M-M.

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