χειμάρρους
winter torrent, wadi
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where χειμάρρους appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 65 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 32:24 χειμάρρους And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning.
- Leviticus 11:9 χειμάρρους And these are what you⌃ shall eat of all that are in the waters: all things that have fins and scales in the waters, and in the seas, and in the brooks, these you⌃ shall eat.
- Numbers 21:14 χειμάρρους Therefore it is said in a book, A war of the Lord has set on fire Zoob, and the brooks of Arnon.
- Deuteronomy 2:36 χειμάρρους From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Galaad; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.
- Judges 4:7 χειμάρρους And I will bring to you to the torrent of Kison Sisara the captain of the host of Jabin, and his chariots, and his multitude, and I will deliver them into your hands.
- 1 Samuel 15:5 χειμάρρους And Saul came to the cities of Amalec, and laid wait in the valley.
- 1 Kings 2:37 χειμάρρους
- 2 Kings 3:16 χειμάρρους And he said, Thus says the Lord, Make this valley full of trenches.
- Ezra 12:15 χειμάρρους
- Job 6:15 χειμάρρους My nearest relations have not regarded me; they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.
- Psalms 17:5 χειμάρρους The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
- Ecclesiastes 1:7 χειμάρρους All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, there they return again.
- Isaiah 66:12 χειμάρρους For thus says the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.
- Ezekiel 36:4 χειμάρρους therefore, you⌃ mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;
- Joel 4:18 χειμάρρους
- Amos 5:24 χειμάρρους But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
- Micah 6:7 χειμάρρους Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my firstborn for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
About this word
About this word
χειμάρρους (cheimárrous), “winter torrent, wadi,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 65 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →