wind
anemos denotes moving air, especially winds affecting seas and travel, and can frame doctrine or the earth's four winds.
The term most often names physical winds that stir water, impede ships, blow against buildings, or cease after being rebuked. Less often, it appears in the phrase “wind of doctrine” and in the expression “four winds” marking the earth's full extent.
Senses in use
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Physical winds affecting sea, travel, and structures · dominant
The noun identifies winds as forces that oppose sailing, drive ships, raise storms, and agitate the sea. In Acts 27:15 the APB renders a ship unable to face the wind, while in Mark 4:37 a storm of wind fills the boat with waves; Matthew 7:25 depicts plural winds blowing against a house.
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The four winds as earth-wide extent · occasional
Plural forms occur in the expression “four winds.” In Matthew 24:31 the APB renders the elect gathered “from the four winds,” and Revelation 7:1 portrays four winds of the earth being held so that no wind would blow on land, sea, or trees.
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Figurative wind in unstable teaching · rare
In Ephesians 4:14, the dative singular form occurs in the clause rendered “carried about by every wind of doctrine.” The verse uses the image of being tossed and carried about in describing instability caused by deceitful schemes.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “wind” or “winds,” including stormy, strong, contrary, and ceased winds. Its wording confirms the verse-level scene but does not by itself establish every nuance of the term.