Lexical Summary cheimarros: flowing in winter, a torrent Original Word: χείμαρροςTransliteration: cheimarros Phonetic Spelling: (khi'-mar-hros) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: flowing in winter, a torrent Meaning: flowing in winter, a torrent Strong's Concordance brook. From the base of cheimon and rheo; a storm-runlet, i.e. Winter-torrent -- brook. see GREEK cheimon see GREEK rheo Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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). |