Lexicon :: Strong's G417 - anemos

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

Then the LORD changed the wind to a strong west[fn] wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,

He rode on a cherub and flew,

soaring[fn] on the wings of the wind.

The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south.

Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf?

Will you chase after dry straw?

He will not escape from the darkness;

flames will wither his shoots,

and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Are they like straw before the wind,

like chaff a storm sweeps away?

When God fixed the weight of the wind

and distributed the water by measure,

The wicked are not like this;

instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

He rode on a cherub and flew,

soaring on the wings of the wind.

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;

I trample them[fn] like mud in the streets.

Let them be like chaff in the wind,

with the angel of the LORD driving them away.

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.

laying the beams of his palace

on the waters above,

making the clouds his chariot,

walking on the wings of the wind,

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain

and brings the wind from his storehouses.

“I was there when he established the heavens,

when he laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

“If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;

if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

The one who brings ruin on his household

will inherit the wind,

and a fool will be a slave

to someone whose heart is wise.

The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist

is like clouds and wind without rain.

The north wind produces rain,

and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

the one who controls her controls the wind

and grasps oil with his right hand.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down?

Who has gathered the wind in his hands?

Who has bound up the waters in a cloak?

Who has established all the ends of the earth?

What is his name,

and what is the name of his son —

if you know?

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain who struggles for the wind?

One who watches the wind will not sow,

and the one who looks at the clouds will not reap.

The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent.

He rebukes them, and they flee far away,

driven before the wind like chaff on the hills

and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

You will winnow them

and a wind will carry them away,

a whirlwind will scatter them.

But you will rejoice in the LORD;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

When you cry out,

let your collection of idols rescue you!

The wind will carry all of them off,

a breath will take them away.

But whoever takes refuge in me

will inherit the land

and possess my holy mountain.

All of us have become like something unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like a polluted[fn] garment;

all of us wither like a leaf,

and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

The prophets become only wind,

for the LORD’s word is not in them.

This will in fact happen to them.

I will scatter you[fn] like drifting chaff

before the desert wind.

Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights

panting for air like jackals.

Their eyes fail

because there are no green plants.

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?

Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.

I will show them[fn] my back and not my face

on the day of their calamity.

The wind will take charge of[fn] all your shepherds,

and your lovers will go into captivity.

Then you will be ashamed and humiliated

because of all your evil.

I will bring the four winds against Elam

from the four corners of the heavens,

and I will scatter them to all these winds.

There will not be a nation

to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.

This is what the LORD says:

I am about to rouse the spirit of a destroyer[fn] against Babylon

and against the population of Leb-qamai.[fn][fn]

“As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem,[fn] and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

“A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“Even though it is planted, will it flourish? Won’t it wither completely when the east wind strikes it? It will wither on the plot where it sprouted.’ ”

“All the fugitives[fn] among his troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every direction of the wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.

“But it was uprooted in fury,

thrown to the ground,

and the east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;

fire consumed them.

Daniel said, “In my vision at night I was watching, and suddenly the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea.

Then the male goat acted even more arrogantly, but when he became powerful, the large horn was broken. Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

“But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven, but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.

Although he flourishes among his brothers,[fn]

an east wind will come,

a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert.

His water source will fail,

and his spring will run dry.

The wind[fn] will plunder the treasury

of every precious item.

“Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

The angel told me, “These are the four spirits[fn] of heaven going out after presenting themselves to the Lord of the whole earth.