'Winter' in the Bible
Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter thou didst form them.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:
The fig-tree melloweth her winter figs, And the vines in bloom give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away!
They shall be left together unto the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the earth; and the birds of prey shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
And it shall come to pass in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
But pray that your flight may not be in winter time nor on sabbath:
Now the feast of the dedication was celebrating at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
And the harbour being ill adapted to winter in, the most counselled to set sail thence, if perhaps they might reach Phoenice to winter in, a port of Crete looking north-east and south-east.
But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go.
Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all.
When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis; for I have decided to winter there.