Strong's Lexicon

H2779

H2779 — חוֹרֶף

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchorephnoun mascOccurrences: 7TWOT: 750a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2779
Word:	חוֹרֶף
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H2778
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	7
Transliteration:	choreph
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kho'-ref
Meaning:	1. (properly) the crop gathered 2. (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season 3. (figuratively) ripeness of age
KJV Renderings:	cold, winter (-house), youth.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3149

חֹ֫רֶף noun masculine harvest-time, autumn (Arabic [untranscribed source text 1986] freshly gathered fruit, autumn (also rain of autumn or beginning of winter) = Sabean חֿרפ (ןׅ DHM^{ZMG 1875, xxix. 597}; Sabean חֿרף, חֿרפם = year, compare Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1987] annus currens Os (Levy)^{ZMG 1865, 168, 174} DHM^{ZMG 1883, 369}; Assyrian —arpu , Schr^{JPTh 1875, 341} KAT^{2 53 n.} = COT^{i. 54
n}.) — absolute ׳ ח Zech 14:8 + 5 t.; suffix חָרְפִּי Job 29:4 — קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף Gen 8:22 ( J ), Ps 74:17 ; Zech 14:8 ׳ בֵּית הַח autumn-house or palace Amos 3:15; Jer 36:22 (+ בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַתְּשִׁיעִי in the 9th month, i.e. Nov-Dec.); ׳ מח עָצֵל לֹא יַחֲרשׁ Prov 20:4 a sluggard ploughs not after harvest; as implying maturity, בִּימֵי חָרְפִּי Job 29:4 in the days of my autumn (prime).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חרף (ghoh’-reph)

Genesis 8:22

KJV: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.While…: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth

EHCC: cold and heat, and summer aad wixter,

Job 29:4

KJV: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

EHCC: As I was in the days of my youth,

Psalms 74:17

KJV: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.made: Heb. made them

EHCC: thou hast made summer and winter,

Proverbs 20:4

KJV: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.cold: or, winter

EHCC: wilt not plow by reason of the cold; (marg.

Jeremiah 36:22

KJV: Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

EHCC: the king sat in the winterhouse

Amos 8:15

EHCC: 1 will smite the winter house

Zechariah 14:8

KJV: And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.former: or, eastern

EHCC: in summer and in winter