Winter

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

Annual return of, will never cease

• Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Plowing in, in Canaan, (margin)

• Proverbs 20:4 The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Rainy season in, in Canaan So 2:11

Shipping suspended in, on the Mediterranean Sea

• Acts 27:12 Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, hoping that somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.
• Acts 28:11 After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

Paul remains for one, at Nicopolis

• Titus 3:12 As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there.

Summer and winter houses

• Jeremiah 36:22 Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
• Amos 3:15 I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

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