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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Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
And when the dew that lay round it was gone up, behold, on the face of the wilderness there was something fine, granular, fine as hoar-frost, on the ground.
Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:
Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
By the breath of God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes;
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
And there was the likeness of an expanse over the heads of the living creature, as the look of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.