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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Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the hoarfrost on the ground.
But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them.
Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:
At the breath of God, the frost cometh, and the waters are shed abroad.
Out of whose womb came the ice? Who hath gendered the coldness of the air?
How he beat down their vineyards with hail stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost;
He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Therefore thus the LORD sayeth, of Jehoiakim the king of Judah: There shall none of his generation sit upon the throne of David. His dead corpse shall be cast out, that the heat of the day and the frost of the night may come upon him.
Above over the heads of the beasts there was a firmament, which was fashioned as it had been of the most pure Crystal, and that was spread out above upon their heads: