Strong's G5492: χειμάζω (cheimázō) Meaning

Quick Definition

χειμάζομαι v. I am storm-tossed

Strong's Definition

to storm, i.e. (passively) to labor under a gale

Derivation: from the same as G5494 (χειμών);

KJV Usage: be tossed with tempest

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

χειμάζω (G5492) — χειμάζομαι

verb | παραχειμάζω · παραχειμασία · χείμαρρος · χειμών

14.3 · Physical Events and States · Weather

Collocation: χειμάζομαι

to undergo bad weather, to be in a storm to be overtaken by or to experience stormy weather In some languages it may be appropriate to translate χειμάζομαι in an idiomatic form, for example, ‘the wind and rain caught us’ or ‘the storm trapped us.’

ACT 27:18

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

χειμάζω: present passive participle χειμαζόμενος; (χεῖμα stormy weather, winter (cf. χειμών)); to afflict with a tempest, to toss about upon the waves: passive, Act_27:18 (R. V. labored with the storm). (Aeschylus, Thucydides, Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch, Lucian, others) (Compare: παραχειμάζω.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

χειμάζω cheimazō 1x

to excite a tempest, toss with a tempest; pass. to be storm-tossed, Acts 27:18*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

χειμάζω

(< χεῖμα, winter cold) [in LXX: Pr 26:10 (†) * ;]

to expose to winter cold, go into winter quarters.

to drive with storm; pass., to be driven with storm, tempest-tossed: Ac 27:18.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

χειμάζω [page 686] χειμάζω , raise a storm, occurs in an agreement regarding a canal Syll 542 ( = 3 973) .5 (B.C. 338 322) χρήσιμος ὁ λουτρὼν ὅταν χειμάζει ὁ θεός . For the pass., as in Act. 27:18, see Inscr. ins. mar. Aeg. II., 119, where certain persons being storm-tossed at sea make an offering to the most high god χειμασθέντες ἐν πελάγει θεῷ ὑψίστῳ χρηστήριον . The verb is used metaphorically in a letter from a tax-farmer P Tebt I. 58 .31 (B.C. 111) βεβουλεύμεθα ἐκσπάσαι τὸ ἐπιδεδομένον ὑπόμνη (μα ) μή ποτε ἐπὶ τοῦ διαλόγου χειμασθω̣μεν , we have determined to extract the memorandum in order that we may not come to grief at the audit (Edd.), BGU III. 844 .4 (A.D. γ ]εινώσκειν σε θέλω , ὅτει [ε ]ὐθέω [ς ] ἀναβ [ὰς ] ἐχειμάσ [θ ]ην πολλὰ . . . : cf. Preisigke 7268 (time of Trajan) ἐπεὶ χειμάζομαι προτάσεσί τισι τεθειμέναις μοι γεομετρικαῖς , and P Oxy XVI. 1873 .5 (late A.D.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

χειμάζω (cheimazō) — be storm-tossed. χειμ-άζω (future -άσω[Refs 4th c.BC+]:—transitive, expose to the winter cold: found only in passive, to be exposed thereto, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; pass the winter, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of trees, live through the winter, χειμασθέντα [δένδρα] [Refs]

2. intransitive, pass the winter, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: of armies, go into winter quarters, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. raise a storm or tempest, θεοῦ τοιαῦτα χειμάζοντος [Refs 5th c.BC+]: impersonal, ἐχείμαζε ἡμέρας τρεῖς the storm continued, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χειμάσει there will be stormy weather, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

III. with accusative, drive forth or away, of a storm, ἔξω χ. [τοὺς μύας] [Refs]:—passive, to be driven by a storm, overtaken by it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III.2. metaphorically, toss like a storm, distress, τόδ᾽ αἷμα χ. πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also, annoy, vex, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σφὴξ τοῖς κέντροις πλήσσων ἐχείμαζε [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be tempest-tossed, distressed, especially of the state considered as a ship, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of single persons, κατὰ θάλασσαν χειμασθεῖσαι (as example of a ψυχικὸν πάθος) [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; suffer grievously, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν στρατείαις ἢ νόσοις ἢ ἐν θαλάττῃ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of feverish patients, χειμάζονται μάλιστα πεμπταῖοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

χειμάζω (χεῖμα, winter cold) [in LXX: Pro.26:10 (†) * ;] __1. to expose to winter cold, go into winter quarters. __2. to drive with storm; pass., to be driven with storm, tempest-tossed: Act.27:18.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

27:18

G5492 χειμάζω (cheimázō)