H2779 - חֹרֶף (chôreph)

H2779 חֹרֶף (chôreph) kho'-ref

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

autumn

Strong's Definition

properly, the crop gathered, i.e. (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively, ripeness of age

Derivation: from H2778 (חָרַף);

KJV Usage: cold, winter (-house), youth.

TWOT Reference: 750a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) harvest time, autumn

2) (CLBL) winter

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) harvest time, autumn 2) (CLBL) winter

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֹרֶף chôreph BDB Definition: 1) harvest time, autumn 2) (CLBL) winter Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H2778 Same Word by TWOT Number: 750a Total KJV Occurrences: 6

Bible Occurrences (7)

8:22

29:4

74:17

20:4

36:22

3:15

14:8

Genesis 8:22

As long as... the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.

Job 29:4

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

Proverbs 20:4

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Jeremiah 36:22

Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.

Amos 3:15

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end, declares the LORD.

Zechariah 14:8

And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike....