Strong’s G5493 · Greek
χείμαῤῥος
cheímarrhos
Definition
a storm-runlet, i.e. winter-torrent
Etymology
from the base of G5494 (χειμών) and G4482 (ῥέω);
Where the KJV renders it
- brook
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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