Winter in the Bible
Annual return of, will never cease
- Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
⇒Bible Encyclopedia for WINTER.
Plowing in, in Canaan, (margin)
- Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Rainy season in, in Canaan
- Song of Solomon 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Shipping suspended in, on the Mediterranean Sea
- Acts 27:12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
- Acts 28:11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Winter.
Paul remains for one, at Nicopolis
- Titus 3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
Summer and winter houses
- Jeremiah 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
- Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
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