Strong G5592ψῦχος

cold

Transliteration
psuchos
Pronunciation
psoo'-khos
Morphology
Greek Noun Neuter

Definition

From G5594; coolness: - cold.

Detailed definition

ψύχος (LT, ψῦ-, as in cl.), -εος (-ους), τό
(ψύχω), [in LXX: Gen.8:22 (קֹר), Job.37:9, Psa.147:17 (קָרָה), Zec.14:6, Dan LXX TH 3:67,69 *;]
cold: Jhn.18:18, Act.28:2, 2Co.11:27.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5592 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • cold3

First verses

  1. John 18:18
    And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
  2. Acts 28:2
    And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:27
    In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ψῦχος, εος, τό,
(ψύχω [Refs (11))] cold, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 65.2)]; opposed to θάλπος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.4)]; opposed to ἀλέα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 598a1)]; opposed to καύματα, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mete.” 362b17)]; ἐν ψύχει in winter-time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 17; ἐν τῷ ψ. καθηῦδον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 220d)]; ψ., ={ῥῖγος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 97: _plural_ ψύχεα)]frosts, cold weather, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28, 129, 5.10; ψύχη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 5.4, “Cyn.” 5.9; ἐν τοῖς σφόδρα ψ. καὶ ἐν ταῖς σφόδρα ἀλέαις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 599a19, compare “Mete.” 379a26; _sing._, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 16.)]
2 once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], coolness, ψύχεος ἱμείρων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.555: _metaphorically_, ψ. ἐν δόμοις πέλει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 971.)]