128 occurrences

'Wind' in the Bible

God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheCovenant, God's with NoahMemoriesWindAnimals, Care ForDivine RemembranceGod Dispensing WindGod Remembering His PeopleWaters SubsidingNoah's Flood

After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

Verse ConceptseastSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin BodiesThe East Wind

After them, seven heads of grain—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind—sprouted up.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsOut Of The EastScorchingThin Bodies

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

Verse ConceptseastAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronOne DayOut Of The EastbugsThe East Wind

Then the Lord changed the wind to a strong west wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeaWestWindMiracles Of Moses And AaronOut Of The WestOther References To The Red Sea

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Verse ConceptsRestraintWeather, God's Sovereignty OverStretching OutDivision Of WatersOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindWaters DividedWaters DividingA Way Through The Red SeaThe Sea DividedThings ChangedThe OceanThe SeaThe East Wind

“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesHuman EmotionHeart, HumanWeakness, PhysicalFaint HeartednessSurvivors Threatened

A wind sent by the Lord came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them at the camp all around, three feet off the ground, about a day’s journey in every direction.

Verse ConceptsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWeights And Measures, DistancesWindBirds, Types Of BirdsGod Dispensing WindDimensions Of Other Things

In a little while, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a downpour. So Ahab got in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

Verse ConceptsBlackSkyGod Sending RainDarkness During Daytime

Then He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the Lord’s presence.”At that moment, the Lord passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByWindHoly Spirit, Types OfStormsNo Winds

For the Lord says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the wadi will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’

Verse ConceptsWaterAnimals, Care ForProphesyingGod Providing WaterNo Winds

Their inhabitants have become powerless,dismayed, and ashamed.They are plants of the field,tender grass,grass on the rooftops,blasted by the east wind.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPlantsTendernessWicked Described AsScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

Do you think that you can disprove my wordsor that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?

Verse ConceptsWindReproving PeopleDespair

How long will you go on saying these things?Your words are a blast of wind.

Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?Will You chase after dry straw?

Verse ConceptsChaffFoliageharassment

Does a wise man answer with empty counselor fill himself with the hot east wind?

Verse ConceptseastStomachsToo Many WordsThe East Wind

Are they like straw before the wind,like chaff a storm sweeps away?

Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

Terrors overtake him like a flood;a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeLike A Flood

An east wind picks him up, and he is gone;it carries him away from his place.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of The WickedSudden Death

When God fixed the weight of the windand limited the water by measure,

Verse ConceptsWindGod Dispensing WindAtmospherebalanceweightpressuremeasurement

Terrors are turned loose against me;they chase my dignity away like the wind,and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

Verse ConceptsLossWeather, As God's JudgmentNot ProsperingLosing Honour

You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;You scatter me in the storm.

Verse ConceptsStormsGod Dispensing WindThe Storms Of Life

You whose clothes get hotwhen the south wind brings calm to the land,

Verse ConceptsFacing SouthHot Weather

Now men cannot even look at the sunwhen it is in the skies,after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

Verse ConceptsSkySunSunshineclouds

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

Verse ConceptsLightningOut Of The EastDirectionThe East Wind

The wicked are not like this;instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Verse ConceptsWindWicked Described AsChaffLight As ChaffThe Wicked Will Perish

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;I trample them like mud in the streets.

Verse ConceptsGrinding PeopleMarshesdustcrushes

Let them be like chaff in the wind,with the angel of the Lord driving them away.

Verse ConceptsAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversLight As Chaff

I would hurry to my shelterfrom the raging wind and the storm.”

Verse ConceptsStormsHurricanesshelterThe Storms Of Life

He made the east wind blow in the skiesand drove the south wind by His might.

Verse ConceptsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindFacing SouthOut Of The EastThe East Wind

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,like straw before the wind.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsLight As ChaffWeed

when the wind passes over it, it vanishes,and its place is no longer known.

Verse ConceptsThings Passing Away

laying the beams of His palaceon the waters above,making the clouds His chariot,walking on the wings of the wind,

Verse ConceptsChariotsChariots Of GodWingsBeamsGod WalkingGod RidingHeavenly ChariotsGod In The Windclouds

The one who brings ruin on his householdwill inherit the wind,and a fool will be a slaveto someone whose heart is wise.

Verse ConceptsTroubleServanthood, In SocietyWindControlling ParentsFruits Of SinServants Of PeopleInheritanceFamiliesFamily Problems

The one who controls her controls the windand grasps oil with his right hand.

Verse Conceptsnagging

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?Who has gathered the wind in His hands?Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?Who has established all the ends of the earth?What is His name,and what is the name of His Son—if you know?

Verse ConceptsCreatorCloaksBindingDivine Power Over NatureClimates, TypesCovering The EarthGoing Up To HeavenGod Going DownGod Dispensing WindKnowingWhat Is God's Name?

Gusting to the south,turning to the north,turning, turning, goes the wind,and the wind returns in its cycles.

Verse ConceptsCompassesOut Of The NorthFacing SouthThe North Wind

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsStudying InsanityUseless Endeavour

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsWeariness Of LifeUseless EndeavourUnder The Sunfootball

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsWealthBeing A BlessingEnjoyment, Lack OfBeing BlessedPromised JoyUseless EndeavourGod Judges The WickedPeople With KnowledgeGod Gives WisdomWisdomWisdom And GuidanceSaving Moneystriving

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless EndeavourMotivationSuccess And Hard WorkCompetitionaccomplishmentsaccomplishmenthardworkstriving

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless Endeavour

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Better what the eyes see than wandering desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourThe Faculty Of SightFocusstrivingwanderingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

Verse ConceptsUniversality Of DeathEuthanasiaCoping With DeathHow Death Is InevitableEvil And FreedomPrinciples Of WarSalvation By Other ThingsDeathstruggleWarGod Being In Controlpractice

W Awaken, north wind—come, south wind.Blow on my garden,and spread the fragrance of its spices.Let my love come to his gardenand eat its choicest fruits. >

Verse ConceptsHoly Spirit, Types OfSexual DesireawakeningThe North Wind

When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

The Lord will divide the Gulf of Suez.He will wave His hand over the Euphrateswith His mighty windand will split it into seven streams,letting people walk through on foot.

Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsWindThe Prophecy Towards EgyptSeven ThingsGod Drying Things UpOther References To The Red SeaRiver Euphrates

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.He rebukes them, and they flee far away,driven before the wind like chaff on the hillsand like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Verse ConceptsChaffWindWhirlwindsLight As ChaffRoar Of NationsGod Requite Them!

wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord.

Verse ConceptsTrusting In ChariotsRollingShame Has Come

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;we gave birth to wind.We have won no victories on earth,and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWindBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babydeliverancechildbearing

You disputed with herby banishing and driving her away.He removed her with His severe stormon the day of the east wind.

Verse ConceptseastOut Of The EastPeople ExiledThe East Wind

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,a refuge from the rain,like streams of water in a dry landand the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

Verse ConceptsRocksShadowsStormsThirstWindGod Being Our Hiding PlacePeople As RocksNo WindsBrooksshelterhidingThe Storms Of Life

Their inhabitants have become powerless,dismayed, and ashamed.They are plants of the field,tender grass,grass on the rooftops,blasted by the east wind.

Verse ConceptsGrassPlantsTendernessMan As GrassScorchingLike GrassNo Strength Left

Who has stirred him up from the east?He calls righteousness to his feet.The Lord hands nations over to him,and he subdues kings.He makes them like dust with his sword,like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsChaffOut Of The EastLight As Chaff

You will winnow themand a wind will carry them away,a gale will scatter them.But you will rejoice in the Lord;you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWinnowingDirection

Look, all of them are a delusion;their works are nonexistent;their images are wind and emptiness.

Verse ConceptsConfusionVanityIdols Not Existingimage

When you cry out,let your collection of idols deliver you!The wind will carry all of them off,a breath will take them away.But whoever takes refuge in Mewill inherit the landand possess My holy mountain.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionFalse ConfidenceemptinessTrust, Importance OfLight As ChaffSalvation By Other Things

They will fear the name of Yahweh in the westand His glory in the east;for He will come like a rushing streamdriven by the wind of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of Godenemies, of Israel and JudahHeaven,  Redeemed CommunityReverence, And God's NatureWestGlory Of GodEast And WestGod In The WindSurvivalOvercoming Adversity

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness.She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.Who can control her passion?All who look for her will not become tired;they will find her in her mating season.

Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

Verse ConceptseastWeather, As God's JudgmentWinnowingHot WeatherClean ObjectsDirection

a wind too strong for this comes at My call. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”

The prophets become only wind,for the Lord’s word is not in them.This will in fact happen to them.

Verse ConceptsWindWord Of GodProphecy Abolishedprophets

I will scatter you like drifting chaffbefore the desert wind.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theChaffGod Scattering Israel

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.I will show them My back and not My faceon the day of their calamity.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodeastGod Scattering IsraelTurning One's BackOut Of The EastThe East Wind

The wind will take charge of all your shepherds,and your lovers will go into captivity.Then you will be ashamed and humiliatedbecause of all your evil.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceWindShame Of Bad Conduct

This is what the Lord says:I am about to stir up a destructive wind against Babylonand against the population of Leb-qamai.

Verse ConceptsThose Who DestroyBabylon Destroyed

When He thunders,the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,and He causes the cloudsto rise from the ends of the earth.He makes lightning for the rainand brings the wind from His storehouses.

Verse ConceptsRainStoringThunderGod Dispensing WindGod's StorehousesGod Controlling The Rain

You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleOne ThirdThings StrippedBurning JerusalemAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldOther References To Hair

As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismGod Scattering IsraelSurvivors ThreatenedFathers And SonsDadsFathers And Daughters

A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesRemnantPestilenceOne ThirdThings StrippedFamine Killing

I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelThings StrippedNo HelpGod's Sword

Even though it is planted, will it flourish?Won’t it completely witherwhen the east wind strikes it?It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.”

Verse ConceptseastOut Of The EastPlants Growing UpThe East Wind

All the fugitives among his troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every direction of the wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

Verse ConceptsFugitivesRemnantKilled With The SwordSurvivors Threatened

But it was uprooted in fury,thrown to the ground,and the east wind dried up its fruit.Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;fire consumed them.

Verse ConceptsRootsWindDestruction Of PlantsOut Of The EastBurning PlantsPutting Things Down

Your rowers have brought youonto the high seas,but the east wind has shattered youin the heart of the sea.

Verse ConceptseastHeart, HumanWindOut Of The EastSea DwellersRowingThe East Wind

Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesThreshing FloorSummerLight As ChaffChrist The RockWine In Millennial Kingdom

A wind with its wings will carry them off,and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices. >

Verse ConceptsShameWhirlwindsShame Of Idolatry

Ephraim chases the windand pursues the east wind.He continually multiplies lies and violence.He makes a covenant with Assyria,and olive oil is carried to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAliancesFeedingFalse ConfidenceIdolatry, Objections ToTreatyWindForbidden AlliancesPursuing ViolenceOut Of The EastThe East Wind

Although he flourishes among his brothers,an east wind will come,a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.His water source will fail,and his spring will run dry.The wind will plunder the treasuryof every precious item.

Verse ConceptseastShepherds, As OccupationsTreasureOut Of The EastWaters Drying UpGod Dispensing WindFailing RiversTaking PossessionsFamineThe East Wind

Therefore, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah,and it will consume its citadels.There will be shouting on the day of battleand a violent wind on the day of the storm.

Verse ConceptsWindDestruction Of StrongholdsFire Of JudgementBattle CriesHurricanes

He is here:the One who forms the mountains,creates the wind,and reveals His thoughts to man,the One who makes the dawn out of darknessand strides on the heights of the earth.Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfEarth, Creation OfGod, The CreatorHigh Placesdarkness, naturalRevelation, Through CreationSoldiersWindGod On HighGod WalkingGod Dispensing WindGod's ThoughtsGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The LordWhat Else God CreatedEclipse

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Breeze (5 instances)
Circulate (3 instances)
Current (12 instances)
Curve (1 instance)
Draught (6 instances)
Drift (8 instances)
Meander (1 instance)
Nothingness (4 instances)
Scent (16 instances)
Steer (1 instance)
Thread (31 instances)
Twine (1 instance)
Twist (12 instances)
Wander (68 instances)
Weave (10 instances)
Winding (8 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארבּה 
'arubbah 
Usage: 9

חלּון 
Challown 
Usage: 31

כּו 
Kav (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

לוּל 
Luwl 
Usage: 1

מוּסב 
Muwcab 
Usage: 1

צהר 
Tsohar 
Usage: 24

צפן צפון 
Tsaphown 
Usage: 153

קדם קדים 
Qadiym 
Usage: 69

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

רוּח 
Ruwach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

שׁמשׁ 
Shemesh 
Usage: 134

שׁקף 
Sheqeph 
Usage: 1

שׁקף 
Shaquph 
Usage: 2

תּמן תּימן 
Teyman 
Usage: 23

ἀνεμίζω 
Anemizo 
driven with the wind
Usage: 1

ἄνεμος 
Anemos 
Usage: 25

δέω 
Deo 
bind , tie , knit , be in bonds , wind
Usage: 32

θυρίς 
Thuris 
Usage: 2

νότος 
Notos 
Usage: 3

πνέω 
Pneo 
Usage: 3

πνοή 
Pnoe 
Usage: 2

συστέλλω 
Sustello 
wind up , short
Usage: 2

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