# G5494 χειμών

χειμών (cheimṓn), Strong’s G5494: akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter KJV: tempest, foul weather…

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*cheimṓn* — akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter

KJV: tempest, foul weather, winter

Occurs 13 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 16:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/16?v=3) — In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to…
- [Matthew 24:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/24?v=20) — Pray that your flight will not be in the winter nor on a Sabbath,
- [Mark 13:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/13?v=18) — Pray that your flight won’t be in the winter.
- [John 10:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/10?v=22) — It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Jerusalem.
- [Acts 27:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/27?v=20) — When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved…
- [2 Timothy 4:21](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/4?v=21) — Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.
- [1 Esdras 9:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/9?v=6) — All the multitude sat together shivering in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather.
- [Sirach 21:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/21?v=8) — He who builds his house with other men’s money is like one who gathers stones for his own tomb.
- [4 Maccabees 15:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/15?v=32) — so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emotions, and assaulted by violent…