Dictionaries :: Tempest

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Tempest:

tem'-pest (ce‘-arah, or se‘-arah, "a whirlwind," zerem, "overflowing rain"; cheimon, thuella): Heavy storms of wind and rain are common in Palestine and the Mediterranean. The storms particularly mentioned in the Bible are:

(1) the 40 days' rain of ~the great flood of Noah (Ge 7:4);

(2) hail and rain as a plague in Egypt (Ex 9:18);

(3) the great rain after the drought and the contest of Elijah on Carmel (1Ki 18:45);

(4) the tempest on the sea in the story of Jonah (1:4);

(5) the storm on the Lake of Galilee when Jesus was awakened to calm the waves (Mt 8:24; Mr 4:37; Lu 8:23);

(6) the storm causing the shipwreck of Paul at Melita (Ac 27:18).

Frequent references are found to God's power over storm and use of the tempest in His anger: "He maketh the storm a calm" (Ps 107:29); He sends the "tempest of hail, a destroying storm" (Isa 28:2). See also Job 9:17; 21:18; Isa 30:30. Yahweh overwhelms His enemies as with a storm: "She shall be visited of Yahweh of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest" (Isa 29:6). Yahweh is a "refuge from the storm" (Isa 25:4; 4:6).

Written by Alfred H. Joy

King James Dictionary

Tempest: Storm; Whirlwind.

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible TEMPEST: this shall be the portion of their cup. (Psalm 11:5-6)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Tempest:

"a hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind" (akin to thuo, "to slay," and thumos, "wrath"), is used in Hbr 12:18. In the Sept., Exd 10:22; Deu 4:11; 5:22.

Tempest:

"a shaking" (Eng., "seismic," etc.), is used of a "tempest" in Mat 8:24.
See EARTHQUAKE.

Tempest:

"winter, a winter storm," hence, in general, "a tempest," is so rendered in Act 27:20.
See WEATHER, WINTER.

Tempest:

"a tempest," 2Pe 2:17, AV: see STORM.

Note: For "tossed with a tempest," Act 27:18, AV, see LABOR, B, No. 2.