βοῤῥᾶς
north wind
‘north wind’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1005 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
βορρας (borrhâs) is a Greek noun most often rendered “north wind.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It first appears in Luke 13:29. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1005 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 1 verse 50%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: North 2×
- American Standard Version: North 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: North 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: North 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1005 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1005 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1005 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1005 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Boreas, the north-north-east wind
- the north
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; the north (properly wind): - north.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1005 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Βορρᾶ Borrâ | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 13:29 | 1 |
| βορρᾶ borrâ | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 21:13 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βορρας appears 148 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 137 verses in 25 books.
- 148
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 137
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 13:14 βορέας
- Exodus 26:18 βορέας
- Leviticus 1:11 βορέας
- Numbers 2:25 βορέας
- Deuteronomy 2:3 βορέας
- Joshua 15:5 βορέας
- Judges 2:9 βορέας
- 1 Samuel 14:5 βορέας
- 1 Kings 7:13 βορέας
- 2 Kings 16:14 βορέας
- 1 Chronicles 9:24 βορέας
- 2 Chronicles 4:4 βορέας
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1005) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 137. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 13:14 βορέας Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 28:14 βορέας Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Exodus 26:18 βορέας You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 26:35 βορέας You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 37:9 βορέας The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
- Exodus 40:22 βορέας He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil.
- Leviticus 1:11 βορέας He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
- Numbers 2:25 βορέας "On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
- Numbers 3:35 βορέας The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.
- Numbers 10:6 βορέας When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
- Numbers 34:7 βορέας This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor;
- Numbers 34:9 βορέας and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.
- Numbers 35:5 βορέας You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- Deuteronomy 2:3 βορέας You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
- Deuteronomy 3:27 βορέας Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
- Joshua 15:5 βορέας The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
- Joshua 15:6 βορέας and the border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
- Joshua 15:8 βορέας and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the valley of Rephaim northward;
- Joshua 15:10 βορέας and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
- Joshua 15:11 βορέας and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
- Joshua 16:6 βορέας and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;
- Joshua 17:9 βορέας The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea:
- Joshua 17:10 βορέας southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
- Joshua 18:5 βορέας They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
- Joshua 18:12 βορέας Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
- Joshua 18:16 βορέας and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel;
- Joshua 18:18 βορέας and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah;
- Joshua 18:19 βορέας and the border passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.
- Joshua 19:14 βορέας and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out of it were at the valley of Iphtah El;
- Joshua 19:27 βορέας and it turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,
- Joshua 24:31 βορέας Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
- Judges 2:9 βορέας They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
- Judges 7:1 βορέας Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
- Judges 12:1 βορέας The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.
- Judges 21:19 βορέας They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
- 1 Samuel 14:5 βορέας The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
- 1 Kings 7:13 βορέας King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
- 2 Kings 16:14 βορέας The brazen altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.
- 1 Chronicles 9:24 βορέας On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
- 1 Chronicles 26:14 βορέας The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
- 1 Chronicles 26:17 βορέας Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two.
- 2 Chronicles 4:4 βορέας It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
- 2 Chronicles 14:9 βορέας There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to Mareshah.
- Job 26:7 βορέας He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.
- Job 37:22 βορέας Out of the north comes golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.
- Psalms 47:3 βορέας He subdues nations under us, And peoples under our feet.
- Psalms 88:13 βορέας But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
- Psalms 106:3 βορέας Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
- Proverbs 25:23 βορέας The north wind brings forth rain: So a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
- Proverbs 27:16 βορέας Restraining her is like restraining the wind, Or like grasping oil in his right hand.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1005) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
