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1 . mezarim, lit. 'the scattering': regarding the north wind as scattering the clouds and bringing severe cold. Elihu said the cold came out of the north. The word occurs only in Job 37: 9.
2. tsaphon, 'hidden, dark.' The ancients regarded the north as the region of gloom and darkness. This is the word commonly translated 'north' in the O.T. Job 37: 9, etc.
3. βορρᾶς, north. Luke 13: 29; Rev. 21: 13.