Word Summary
psychros: cold
Original Word: ψυχρόςTransliteration: psychros
Phonetic Spelling: (psoo-chros')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: cold
Meaning: cold
Strong's Concordance
cold.
From psuchos; chilly (literally or figuratively) -- cold.
see GREEK psuchos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5593: ψυχρόςψυχρός,
ψυχρα,
ψυχρόν (
ψύχω, which see), from
Homer down,
cold, cool: neuter of cold water,
ποτηρτιον,
ψυχροῦ,
Matthew 10:42 ((
ψύχρω λουνται,
Herodotus 2, 37);
ψυχρόν πίνειν, Epict ench. 29, 2;
πλύνεσθαι ψύχρω, diss. 4, 11, 19; cf.
Winers Grammar, 591 (550)); metaphorically, like the Latin
frigidus,
cold i. e. sluggish, inert, in mind (
ψυχρός τήν ὀυργην,
Lucian, Tim. 2): of one destitute of warm Christian faith and the desire for holiness,
Revelation 3:15f.