Rain
גֶּ֫שֶׁםStrong’s H1653geshem (ge-shem)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geshem is the Hebrew word usually translated “rain”, “shower of” and “rains your”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.”
Meaning
- Rain, shower
How it's translated
- rain 14
- the rain 8
- and rain 4
- and shower of 2
- rains your 1
- and from the rains 1
- rains 1
- rain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 5
- Ezekiel 5
- Genesis 2
- Ezra 2
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:17In contextAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
- Genesis 7:12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Leviticus 26:4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- 1 Kings 17:7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
- 1 Kings 17:14For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
All 33 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
גֶּ֫שֶׁם geshem · rain
rain, shower
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.