2 Kings 2:1
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
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Whirlwind
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Zechariah 7:14
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
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6 occurrences in 4 verses.
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סַעַר
çaʻar · sah'-ar
11 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: 2 Kings 2:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 30:23
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çûwphâh · soo-faw'
10 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 37:9Strong's last: Nahum 1:3
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çâʻar · saw-ar'
3 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: Hosea 13:3Strong's last: Zechariah 7:14
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sâʻar · saw-ar'
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to storm; by implication, to shiver, i.e. fear
Strong's KJV usage: be (horribly) afraid, fear, hurl as a storm, be tempestuous, come like (take away as with) a whirlwind.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 58:9Strong's last: Daniel 11:40
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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: Ezekiel 1:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 1:4
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H5591
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
H5591
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
H5492
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
H5591
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
H5591
Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
H8175
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
H5492
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
H5492
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
H5492
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
H5492
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
H5591
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
H5591
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
H5492
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
H5492
Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
H5591
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
H5591
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
H5591
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
H5591
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
H5591
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
H7307
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
H8175
And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
H5492
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
H5590
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
H5492
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:
H5492
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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whirlwind
WHIRLWIND, noun [whirl and wind.] A violent wind moving in a circle, or rather in a spiral form, as if moving round an axis; this axis or the perpendicular column moving horizontally, raising and whirling dust, leaves and the like.
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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