Reference: Frost
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(Heb kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Ge 31:40; Jer 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16,29; and "crystal" in Eze 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near Lebanon." Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are frequently succeeded by warm days.
Hoar frost (Heb kephor, so called from its covering the ground) is mentioned in Ex 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps 147:16.
In Ps 78:47 the word rendered "frost" (R.V. marg., "great hail-stones"), hanamal, occurs only there. It is rendered by Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, "ant," and so also by others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient versions may be maintained.
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This was [my lot]; by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.
And when the dew had gone, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a fine, round and flakelike thing, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground.
Which are black and turbid by reason of the ice, and in which the snows hides itself;
Return [from your suspicion], I pray you, let there be no injustice; yes, return again [to confidence in me], my vindication is in it.
By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen over.
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost and [great chunks of] ice.
He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no [heir] to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.
Over the head of the [combined] living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, looking like the terrible and awesome [dazzling of shining] crystal or ice stretched across the expanse of sky over their heads.