Lexicon cheimarros: flowing in winter, a torrent Original Word: χείμαρρος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: cheimarros Phonetic Spelling: (khi'-mar-hros) Short Definition: a winter torrent Definition: a storm-brook, a winter torrent. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as cheimazó and rheóDefinitionflowing in winter, a torrent NASB Translationravine (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5493: χειμαροροςχειμαρορος (for the more common χειμαρρως (namely, ποταμός), Attic contracted χειμάρρους (which see in Liddell and Scott, at the end), cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 234), χειμαρορου, ὁ ( χεῖμα winter, and ῤέω, Ροως), from Homer down, the Sept. very often for נַחַל, literally, flowing in winter, a torrent: John 18:1 (where A. V. brook).
Strong's brook. From the base of cheimon and rheo; a storm-runlet, i.e. Winter-torrent -- brook. see GREEK cheimon see GREEK rheo |