Wind

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Blasting

• 2 Kings 19:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
• 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

East

Hot and blasting in Egypt

• Genesis 41:6 After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

In the valley of the Euphrates River

• Ezekiel 19:12 But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

In Canaan

• Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come — a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
• Luke 12:55 And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.

At the city of Nineveh

• Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Tempestuous in the land of Uz

• Job 27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

West

Took away the plague of locusts from the land of Egypt

• Exodus 10:19 And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

North

Free from humidity in Canaan

• Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

South

Soothing

• Job 37:17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

Tempestuous

• Job 37:9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Purifying

• Job 37:21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

Figurative

• Hosea 4:19 The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.’’

Of the judgments of God

• Jeremiah 22:22 The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
• Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come — a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
• Matthew 7:25 The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.

Of the Spirit

• John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

Of heresy

• Ephesians 4:14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.