Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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Tempest
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2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
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5 occurrences in 5 verses.
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סַעַר
çaʻar · sah'-ar
6 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a hurricane
Strong's KJV usage: storm(-y), tempest, whirlwind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:8Strong's last: Jonah 1:12
Open full H5591 profile →זֶרֶם
zerem · zeh'-rem
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a gush of water
Strong's KJV usage: flood, overflowing, shower, storm, tempest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:2Strong's last: Isaiah 32:2
Open full H2230 profile →θύελλα
thýella · thoo'-el-lah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: :--tempest.
Strong's first: Hebrews 12:18Strong's last: Hebrews 12:18
Open full G2366 profile →λαῖλαψ
laîlaps · lah'-ee-laps
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a whirlwind (squall)
Strong's KJV usage: :--storm, tempest.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:17Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:17
Open full G2978 profile →σεισμός
seismós · sice-mos'
1 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
a commotion, i.e. (of the air) a gale, (of the ground) an earthquake
Strong's KJV usage: :--earthquake, tempest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:24Strong's last: Matthew 8:24
Open full G4578 profile →χειμάζω
cheimázō · khi-mad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to storm, i.e. (passively) to labor under a gale
Strong's KJV usage: :--be tossed with tempest.
Strong's first: Acts 27:18Strong's last: Acts 27:18
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cheimṓn · khi-mone'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication, the rainy season, i.e. winter
Strong's KJV usage: :--tempest, foul weather, winter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:20Strong's last: Acts 27:20
Open full G5494 profile →סוּפָה
çûwphâh · soo-faw'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a hurricane
Strong's KJV usage: Red Sea, storm, tempest, whirlwind, Red sea.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 27:20Strong's last: Job 27:20
Open full H5492 profile →סָעַר
çâʻar · saw-ar'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to rush upon; by implication, to toss (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be (toss with) tempest(-uous), be sore, troubled, come out as a (drive with the, scatter with a) whirlwind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 54:11Strong's last: Isaiah 54:11
Open full H5590 profile →רוּחַ
rûwach · roo'-akh
1 times translated as this KJV form377 total Strong's occurrences
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
Strong's KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, × cool, courage, mind, × quarter, × side, spirit(-ual), tempest, × vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
Strong's first: Psalms 11:6Strong's last: Psalms 11:6
Open full H7307 profile →שְׂעָרָה
sᵉʻârâh · seh-aw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a hurricane
Strong's KJV usage: storm, tempest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 9:17Strong's last: Job 9:17
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H8183
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
H5492
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
H7307
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
H5591
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
H5591
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
H2230
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
H5591
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
H2230
And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
H2230
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
H5590
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
H5591
But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
H5591
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
H5591
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
G4578
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
G5492
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
G5494
And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
G2366
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
G2978
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
English meaning and historical usage.
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tempest
TEM'PEST, noun [Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to fall or come suddenly, or rather to drive, to rush. Time is properly a coming, a season, that which presents itself, or is present. The sense of tempest is from the sense of rushing or driving. See Temerity and Temerarious.
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence; a storm of extreme violence. We usually apply the word to a steady wind of long continuance; but we say also of a tornado, it blew a tempest The currents of wind are named, according to their respective degrees of force or rapidity, a breeze, a gale, a storm, a tempest; but gale is also used as synonymous with storm, and storm with tempest Gust is usually applied to a sudden blast of short duration. A tempest may or may not be attended with rain, snow or hail.
We, caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd
Each on his rock transfix'd--
2. A violent tumult or commotion; as a popular or political tempest; the tempest of war.
3. Perturbation; violent agitation; as a tempest of the
passions.
TEM'PEST, verb transitive To disturb as by a tempest of the passions. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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