To rain
גָּשַׁםStrong’s H1652gasham (ga-sham)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gasham is the Hebrew word usually translated “send rain”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.”
Meaning
- To rain(Pual) to be rained on · (Hiphil) to cause rain, send rain
How it's translated
- send rain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גָּשַׁם gasham · to rain
1) to rain 1a) (Pual) to be rained on 1b) (Hiphil) to cause rain, send rain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAIN, verb intransitive
[It seems that rain is contracted from regen. It is the Gr. to rain to water, which we retain in brook, and the Latins, by dropping the prefix, in rigo, irrigo, to irrigate. The primary sense is to pour out, to drive forth. Heb.]
- To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains; it will rain; it rained, or it has rained.
- To fall or drop like rain; as, tears rained at their eyes.
All definitions and other forms of “rain”
RAIN, verb transitive
To pour or shower down from the upper regions, like rain from the clouds.
- “Then said the Lord to Moses, behold I will rain bread from heaven for you” Exodus 16:4“God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating” Job 20:23“Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and horrible tempest” Psalms 11:6
RAIN, noun
The descent of water in drops from the clouds; or the water thus falling. rain is distinguished from mist, by the size of the drops, which are distinctly visible. When water falls in very small drops or particles, we call it mist, and fog is composed of particles so fine as to be not only indistinguishable, but to float or be suspended in the air.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.