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Tempest [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to fall or come suddenly, or rather to drive, to rush. Time is properly a coming, a season, that which presents itself, or is present. The sense of tempest is from the sense of rushing or driving. See Temerity and Temerarious .

2. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence; a storm of extreme violence. We usually apply the word to a steady wind of long continuance; but we say also of a tornado, it blew a tempest The currents of wind are named, according to their respective degrees of force or rapidity, a breeze, a gale, a storm, a tempest; but gale is also used as synonymous with storm, and storm with tempest Gust is usually applied to a sudden blast of short duration. A tempest may or may not be attended with rain, snow or hail.

3. We, caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd

4. Each on his rock transfix'd--

5. A violent tumult or commotion; as a popular or political tempest; the tempest of war.

6. Perturbation; violent agitation; as a tempest of the

7. passions.

Tempest [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To disturb as by a tempest of the passions. [Little used.]

Tempest [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.

2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.

Tempest [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To storm.

Tempest [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To disturb as by a tempest.

Tempest-beaten [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Beaten or shattered with storms.

Tempest-tost [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tossed or driven about by tempests.

Tempestive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers.

Tempestivily [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.

Tempestivity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Seasonableness. [Not in use.]

Tempestuous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Very story; turbulent; rough with wind; as tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night.

2. Blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind.

Tempestuous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.

Tempestuously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With great violence of wind or great commotion; turbulently.

Tempestuousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Storminess; the state of being tempestuous or disturbed by violent winds; as the tempestuousness of the winter or of weather.

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Job 9:17

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

Job 27:20

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Job 37:9

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Psalms 11:6

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

Psalms 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

Psalms 55:8

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

Psalms 83:15

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

Psalms 107:25

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

Isaiah 29:6

Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

Isaiah 30:30

And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Isaiah 54:11

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Amos 1:14

But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

Jonah 1:4

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

Jonah 1:11

Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”

Jonah 1:12

And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”

Jonah 1:13

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

Matthew 8:24

And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.

Acts 27:14

But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.