'Winter' in the Bible

“While the earth remains,Seedtime and harvest,Cold and heat,Winter and summer,And day and nightShall not cease.”

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,Stretching his wings toward the south [as winter approaches]?

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];You have made summer and winter.

The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].

‘For behold, the winter is past,The rain is over and gone.

They (warriors) will be left together for the mountain birds of prey,And for the beasts of the earth;And the birds of prey will [spend the] summer feeding on them,And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see the branch of an almond tree.”

And in that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea (Dead Sea) and half of them to the western sea (the Mediterranean); it will be in summer as well as in winter.

Pray that your flight [from persecution and suffering] will not be in winter, or on a Sabbath [when Jewish laws prohibit travel].

Pray that it will not occur in winter,

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem.

Having said these things, Jesus left with His disciples and went across the ravine of the Kidron. There was a garden there, which He and His disciples entered.

Because the harbor was not well situated for wintering, the majority [of the sailors] decided to put to sea from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

but it may be that I will stay with you [for a while], or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way to wherever I may go afterward.

Try your best to come [to me] before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.

When I send Artemas or [perhaps] Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.