choref · winter

What it means

choref (חֹרֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “winter”.

The rainy season; also autumn, the time of youth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The cold, rainy season that follows summer; also one's prime of life.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• winter ×5
• autumn ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 8:22

  While all the days of the earth remain, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.”

• Job 29:4

  as I was in the days of my autumn, when the intimate counsel of Eloah was over my tent,

• Psalms 74:17

  You fixed all the boundaries of the earth; summer and winter, you formed them.

• Proverbs 20:4

  From autumn the sluggard does not plow; he asks at the harvest, and there is nothing.

• Jeremiah 36:22

  Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with the brazier burning before him.

• Amos 3:15

  And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many houses will come to an end, declares YHWH.

• Zechariah 14:8

  And it will happen on that day that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter it will be so.