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 have I been - By day, drought hath consumed me, And, frost, by, night, - So that my sleep fled away from mine eyes.
and when the outpouring of dew went up, then lo! on the face of the desert, a thin flake, thin as hoar-frost on the earth,
Which darken by reason of the cold, over them, is a covering made by the snow:
Reply, I pray you, let there be no perversity, Yea reply even yet, my vindication is in it!
By the breath of GOD, is given - frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;
Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost:
Who giveth snow like wool, Hoar-frost - like ashes, he scattereth:
Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, - He shall have none 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;
And there was a likeness over the heads of the living one - an expanse, like terrible crystal to look upon, -stretched forth over their heads above.