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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: χείμαρρος

(Strong's #5493 — Adjective — cheimarrhos — khi'-mar-hros )

lit., "winter-flowing" (from cheima, "winter," and rheo, "to flow"), a stream which runs only in winter or when swollen with rains, a "brook," John 18:1 .

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Brook'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​b/brook.html. 1940.
 
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