This Greek word spans two distinct weather realities. In four occurrences it simply means winter — the cold season Jesus warns about in the Olivet Discourse ('Pray that your flight not be in winter,' Matt 24:20; Mark 13:18), the winter setting of the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22), and Paul's request that Timothy come before winter (2 Tim 4:21). But in two passages it denotes a violent storm: the red sky that signals foul weather (Matt 16:3) and the terrible tempest that battered Paul's ship for many days (Acts 27:20). The multilingual evidence confirms the split decisively — Spanish uses 'invierno' for the season but 'tempestad' for the storm, and English shifts from 'winter' to 'storm.'