Winds

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The four represent the four quarters (Eze_37:9; Dan_8:8; Mat_24:31; Jer_49:36). The N. wind was coldest (Son_4:16). The N. wind "awakes," i.e. arises strongly; the Holy Spirit as the Reprover of sin (Joh_16:8-11). The S. wind "comes" gently; the Comforter (Joh_14:16). The W. wind brings rain from the sea (1Ki_18:44-45); its precursor is cloud (Luk_12:54), prevailing in Palestine from November to February. The E. wind is tempestuous (Job_27:21) and, withering (Gen_41:23). The N. wind is first invoked (Son_4:16) to clear the air (Job_37:22); then the warm S. wind (Job_37:17; Luk_12:55); so the Holy Spirit first clears away mists of gloom, error, unbelief, and sin, which intercept the light of the Sun of righteousness, then infuses warmth (2Co_4:6), causing the graces to exhale their odor.
In Pro_25:23 "the N. wind driveth away (literally, causeth to grieve, so puts to flight) rain," so a frowning countenance drives away a backbiting tongue. So Vulgate, Chald., and Syriac less appropriately "bringeth forth rain." The N. wind prevails from June to the equinox, the N.W. wind thence to November. The E. wind, "the wind of the wilderness" (Job_1:19; Job_27:21; Jer_13:24). It is parching and penetrating, like the sirocco (Jon_4:8). The E. wind blowing from across the Red Sea, just at the Passover time of year, was the natural agency employed by divine interposition to part the waters of the Red Sea S. of Suez (Exo_14:21). The E. wind meant in Gen_41:6; Gen_41:23 is probably the S.E. wind blowing from the Arabian desert, called the chamsin, so parching as to wither up all grass; during it there is an entire absence of ozone in the air.
The samoom blows from the S.S.E.; blowing over the Arabian peninsula, it is parching when it reaches Palestine. Lake squalls (lailaps) are noticed Mar_4:37; Luk_8:23. The Greek (lips) name for S.W. wind, and the Latin (cores) N.W. wind, and the violent Euraquilon (not Euroclydon), E.N.E. wind, are noticed Act_27:12; Act_27:14. (See EUROCLYDON.) The E. wind symbolizes empty violence (Job_15:2; Hos_12:1; Israel "followeth after" not only vain but pernicious things) and destruction (Jer_18:17; Isa_27:8). Wind indicates speed (Psa_104:4; Heb_1:7), transitoriness (Job_7:7; Psa_78:39), the Holy Spirit (Joh_3:8; Act_2:2; Gen_3:8 margin).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Winds. That the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly speaking, from the four cardinal points, north, south, east and west, may be inferred from their custom of using the expression "four winds" as equivalent to the "four quarters" of the hemisphere. Eze_37:9; Dan_8:8; Zec_2:6; Mat_24:31.
The north wind, or, as it was usually called "the north," was naturally the coldest of the four, Sir_43:20, and its presence is hence invoked as favorable to vegetation in Son_4:16. It is described in Pro_25:23 as bringing rain; in this case, we must understand the northwest wind.
The northwest wind prevails from the autumnal equinox to the beginning of November, and the north wind from June to the equinox.
The east wind crosses the sandy wastes of Arabia Deserts before reaching Palestine and was hence termed "the wind of the wilderness." Job_1:19; Jer_13:14. It blows with violence, and is hence supposed to be used generally for any violent wind. Job_27:21; Job_38:24; Psa_48:7; Isa_27:8; Eze_27:26. In Palestine, the east wind prevails from February to June.
The south wind, which traverses the Arabian peninsula before reaching Palestine, must necessarily be extremely hot. Job_37:17; Luk_12:55.
The west and southwest winds reach Palestine loaded with moisture gathered from the Mediterranean, and are hence expressly termed by the Arabs "the fathers of the rain." Westerly winds prevail in Palestine from November to February.
In addition to the four regular winds, we have notice in the Bible of the local squalls, Mar_4:37; Luk_8:23, to which the Sea of Gennesareth was liable. In the narrative of St. Paul's voyage, we meet with the Greek term Lips to describe the southwest wind; the Latin Carus or Caurus, the northwest wind Act_27:12 and Euroclydon, a wind of a very violent character coming from east-northeast. Act_27:14.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863





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