HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2602
חֲנָמֵל
cha.na.mal — frost
1) frost, flood, sleet (meaning uncertain) 1a) that which destroyed the sycamore trees
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Frost
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G8672
πάχνη
pachnē — frost
hoar-frost, rime , Lat. pruina, (Odyssey by Homer): metaphorically, κουροβόρος π. the clotted blood of the eaten children, (Aeschulus Tragicus) (ML)
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קֶ֫רַח
qe.rach — ice
1) frost, ice, ice crystal 1a) frost (of night) 1b) ice
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κρύσταλλος
krustallos — crystal
κρύσταλλος, -ου, ὁ (κρύος, frost), [in LXX: Job.38:29, Psa.147:17, Eze.1:22 (קֶרַח), etc. ;] crystal: Rev.4:6 22:1.† (AS)
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παγετός
pagetos — icy coldness
frost , (Xenophon Historicus); compare πάγος II. (ML)
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ῥῖγος
rhigos — shivering
frost, cold , Lat. frigus, (Odyssey by Homer), etc. (ML)
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(Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., “ice”); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered “ice” in Job 6:16, 38:29; and “crystal” in Ezek. 1:22. “At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near Lebanon.” Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are frequently succeeded by warm days. “Hoar frost” (Heb. kephor, so called from its covering the ground) is mentioned in Ex. 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps. 147:16. In Ps. 78:47 the word rendered “frost” (R.V. marg., “great hail-stones”), hanamal, occurs only there. It is rendered by Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, “ant,” and so also by others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient versions may be maintained.
Scripture references
Job 37:10Genesis 31:40Jeremiah 36:30Job 6:16Job 6:38Ezekiel 1:22Exodus 16:14Job 38:29Psalms 147:16Psalms 78:47
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.