Strong’s H5638 · Hebrew

סְתָו
çᵉthâv
seth-awv'

Definition

winter (as the dark season)

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to hide;

Where the KJV renders it

  • winter

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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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