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Strong's #2779 - חֹרֶף
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- harvest time, autumn
- (CLBL) winter
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2208) prh (ההרפ HhRP) AC: Pierce CO: Winter AB: ?: The piercing cold of winter. [from: lh- piercing]
V) prh (ההרפ HhRP) - I. Taunt:To pierce another with sharp words of reproach, scorn or taunting (see Psalm 42:10) . II. Betrothal:A nose ring is put in the piercing of the nose as a sign of betrothal (see Genesis 24:47) . KJV (41): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Piel) reproach, defy, betroth, blaspheme, jeopardise - Strongs: H2778 (חָרַף)
Nf1) eprh (ההרפה HhRPH) - Piercing: A scorn, taunting or reproach as a piercing. KJV (73): reproach, shame, rebuke, reproachfully - Strongs: H2781 (חֶרְפָּה)
gm) prfh (ההורפ HhWRP) - Winter: The time of the piercing cold. KJV (7): winter, youth, cold - Strongs: H2779 (חֹרֶף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
freshly gathered fruit, autumn (also rain of autumn or beginning of winter) = Sabean חֿרפ (ןׅ DHM ZMG 1875, xxix. 597; Sabean חֿרף, חֿרפם = year, compare Ethiopic 
annus currens Os (Levy) ZMG 1865,168, 174 DHM ZMG 1883,369; Assyrian —arpu, Schr JPTh 1875,341 KAT253n. = COT i. 54 n.) — absolute ׳ח Zechariah 14:8 5t.; suffix חָרְמִּי Job 29:4; — קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף Genesis 8:22 (J), Psalm 74:17; Zechariah 14:8; ׳בֵּית הַח autumn-house or palace Amos 3:15; Jeremiah 36:22 (+ בַּחֹדֶשׁהַתְּשִׁיעִי in the 9th month, i.e. Nov-Dec.); ׳מחעָצֵל לֹא יַחֲרשׁ Proverbs 20:4 a sluggard ploughs not after harvest; as implying maturity, בִּימֵי חָרְמִּי Job 29:4 in the days of my autumn (prime).
חֹרֶף m. autumn, the season in which fruits are gathered (see the root No. 1). Arabic خَرِيفُ, see Schultens on Job 29:4. It commonly includes also the winter, and thus קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף summer and autumn make up the whole year, Genesis 8:22; Psalms 74:17; Zechariah 14:8. בֵּית חֹרֶף a winter house, Amos 3:15. Metaph. used of mature age, manhood; compare Gr. ὀπώρα Pind. Isthm. ii. 8; Nem. v. 11; ὥρα, Plato. Legg. viii. p.415: auctumnus; Ovid. Met., xv. 200. Job 29:4, בִּימֵי חָרְפִּי “in the days of my maturity,” i.e. of my manly vigour; τῆς ἀκμῆς μου, the flower of my age.
[It may, I think, be questioned, whether חֹרֶף really means winter as well as autumn; the phrase קַיִץ וָחֹרֶף will not prove it by any means; see Genesis 8:22. As to Proverbs 20:4, it may signify “he will not plow by reason of the autumn,” i.e. the abundance of autumn fruits. In Job 29:4, the metaphorical use appears to arise from the autumn having been regarded as the beginning, the prime of the year, see Thes.]
