Bible Dictionary: Cool

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

2. (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

3. (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

4. (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

5. (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

6. (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

7. (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

8. (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

9. (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

10. (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.

11. (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

COOL

kool (ruach, "wind"; katapsucho, "to cool down"): "Cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8, margin "wind"), when the evening breeze has tempered the heat of the day, enabling Orientals to walk abroad. "Cool my tongue" (Luke 16:24), a phrase reflecting the Jewish notion that Abraham had power to rescue his descendants from the fires of Hades.

Greek

2711. katapsucho -- to cool
... to cool. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katapsucho Phonetic Spelling:
(kat-ap-soo'-kho) Short Definition: I cool, refresh Definition: I cool, refresh. ...
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5594. psucho -- to breathe, blow, to make cool
... to breathe, blow, to make cool. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: psucho Phonetic
Spelling: (psoo'-kho) Short Definition: I cool, grow cold Definition: I ...
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404. anapsucho -- to refresh
... 404 (from 303 , "/completing a process" which intensifies 5594 , "cool by blowing") --
properly, bring cooling (reviving, with fresh air); (figuratively) bring ...
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5593. psuchros -- cold
... cold. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: psuchros Phonetic Spelling:
(psoo-chros') Short Definition: cold, cold-hearted Definition: cool, cold; fig: ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7119. qar -- cool
... cool. Transliteration: qar Phonetic Spelling: (kar) Short Definition: cold. Word
Origin from qarar Definition cool NASB Word Usage cold (2), who has a cool (1). ...
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7307. ruach -- breath, wind, spirit
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition breath, wind, spirit NASB Word Usage
air (2), anger (1), blast (2), breath (31), breathless* (1), cool (1), courage ...
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4747. meqerah -- coolness
... coolness. Transliteration: meqerah Phonetic Spelling: (mek-ay-raw') Short Definition:
cool. Word Origin from qarar Definition coolness NASB Word Usage cool (2). ...
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6315. puach -- to breathe, blow
... root Definition to breathe, blow NASB Word Usage blow (1), breathe (1), cool (2),
hastens (1), longs (1), set a aflame (1), snorts (1), speaks (1), tells (2 ...
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Library

A Cool Retreat.
... Homily IV. Chapter X."A Cool Retreat. And a certain one amongst
them"a rich man, and possessing a garden of evergreen plants ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter x a cool retreat.htm

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCLI By cool Siloam's shady rill. How sweet
the lily grows! ... Is upward drawn to GOD. By cool Siloam's shady rill. ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/ccli by cool siloams shady.htm

By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill
... III. SACRAMENTS AND RITES Catechism 351. By cool Siloam's shady rill. CM ... Reginald
Heber, 1812. By cool Siloam's shady rill. How fair the lily grows! ...
/.../catechism 351 by cool siloams.htm

The Prince Returns
... At times the boy, with the exquisite beauty of sleep on his heavy lids, would creep
over from his vigil at the door and lay his cool hand on the sick man's ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xii the prince returns.htm

Songs from 'the Water-Babies'
... Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool; Cool and
clear, cool and clear, By shining shingle, and foaming wear; Under the crag ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/songs from the water-babies.htm

God Still Sifting.
... They are cool all the time; cool as icebergs at the North Pole; cool from the topmost
layer of hair to the bottommost cuticle"about certain things. ...
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The Forgotten Preacher.
... road. Clear cool water it is. ... preacher. The crowd's getting the water, sweet
cool refreshing water of life, direct from the fountain. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/the forgotten preacher.htm

A Libation to Jehovah
... that girded him, the privations to which he was exposed, were all forgotten, and
he longed for one more draught of the water that tasted so cool and sweet to ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a libation to jehovah.htm

Whether God the Trinity Indiscriminately Appeared to the Fathers ...
... of its reading sounds in this sense, especially in that which is written, that Adam
heard the voice of the Lord God, walking in the garden in the cool of the ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 10whether god the trinity.htm

An Exhortation to virtue -- and Particularly Upon the Passage...
... An exhortation to virtue"and particularly upon the passage, "God was walking in
Paradise in the cool of the day:""and again on the subject of abstaining ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily viii an exhortation to.htm

Thesaurus

Cool (8 Occurrences)
... superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising
self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a ...
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Dew (35 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed
by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night. ...
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Quench (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering. 3. (vi) To become extinguished;
to go out; to become calm or cool. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Sober (18 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising
cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed. ...
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Shadows (11 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Song of Songs 2:17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether. ...
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Cold (25 Occurrences)
... is to have "no covering in the cold" (Job 24:7). 4. Cold Grateful in Summer: In
the heat of the long summer, the shadow of a rock or the cool of evening is ...
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Wind (180 Occurrences)
... layers of the atmosphere. If the temperature reached is cool enough the
cloud condenses and rain falls. Elijah looked toward the ...
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Breathe (17 Occurrences)
... Song of Songs 2:17 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved,
and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether. ...
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Roof (55 Occurrences)
... WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Judges 3:20 And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting
alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have ...
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Heat (104 Occurrences)
... There is no rain from May to October, and scarcely a cloud in the sky to cool
the air or to screen off the burning vertical rays of the sun. ...
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Bible Concordance

Cool (8 Occurrences)

Luke 16:24 He cried and said,'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 3:8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 3:24 When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."
(DBY JPS NAS RSV)

Proverbs 17:27 He that spareth his words hath knowledge; And he that is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
(ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Song of Songs 2:17 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.
(WEB ASV NAS)

Song of Songs 4:6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
(WEB ASV NAS)

Jeremiah 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?
(DBY NIV)

Subtopics

Cool

Related Terms

Dew (35 Occurrences)

Quench (14 Occurrences)

Sober (18 Occurrences)

Shadows (11 Occurrences)

Cold (25 Occurrences)

Wind (180 Occurrences)

Breathe (17 Occurrences)