'Wind' in the Bible

And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.

And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

And after a very little time, the heaven became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab went in his carriage to Jezreel.

Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;

And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

And certain of the priests' sons with wind instruments; Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,

And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with wind instruments;

When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.