brechō (to rain down)

Meaning

Usually translated “sends rain”, “wet” and “it rained”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

he sends rain 1
to wet 1
she wet 1
it rained 1
to rain 1
it did rain 1
may fall 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Luke 3
Matthew 1
James 1
Revelation 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 7:44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Luke 17:29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
James 5:17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Revelation 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Greek dictionary

βρέχω brechō · to rain down

βρέχω, [in LXX chiefly for מטר ;] 1. to wet: Luk.7:38, 44. 2. In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν, to send rain, to rain (Kennedy, Sources, 39, 155): Mat.5:45; trop., β. πῦρ κ. θεῖον, Luk.17:29; impers., βρέχει, it rains: Jas.5:17; with ὐετός as subj., Rev.11:6. † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “wet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

WET, adjective

[Gr., Latin ]

Containing water, as wet land, or a wet cloth; or having water or other liquid upon the surface, as a wet table. wet implies more water or liquid than moist or humid.
Rainy; as wet weather; a wet season.

All definitions and other forms of “wet”

WET, noun

Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.

WET, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive wet But wetted is sometimes used.

To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle or humectate; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in liquor; as, to wet a spunge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
To moisten with drink.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.