STRONGS G5493:
χειμαρορος (for the more common
χειμαρρως (namely,
ποταμός), Attic contracted
χειμάρρους (which see in Liddell and Scott, at the end), cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 234),
χειμαρορου,
ὁ (
χεῖμα winter, and
ῤέω,
Ροως), from
Homer down, the
Sept. very often for
נַחַל, literally,
flowing in winter, a torrent:
John 18:1 (where
A. V. brook).
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