Shower
רְבִיבִיםStrong’s H7241raviv (ra-viv)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raviv is the Hebrew word usually translated “like copious showers” and “copious showers”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:”
Meaning
- Copious showers, heavy showersas bringing fertility · of prophetic influence (fig)
How it's translated
- like copious showers 2
- copious showers 2
- and like copious showers 1
- with copious showers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
- Psalms 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
- Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 14:22Are 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.
- Micah 5:7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Hebrew dictionary
רְבִיבִים raviv · shower
1) copious showers, heavy showers 1a) as bringing fertility 1b) of prophetic influence (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shower” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOWER, noun
One who shows or exhibits.
All definitions and other forms of “shower”
SHOW'ER, noun
[Qu. Heb. Ch. Ar. to be rough, to shudder.]
- A fall of rain or hail, a sort of duration.
- A fall of thing from the air in thick succession; as a shower of darts or arrows; a shower of stones.
- A copious supply bestowed; liberal distribution; as a great shower of gifts.
SHOW'ER, verb transitive
- To water with a shower; to wet copiously with rain; as, to shower the earth.
- To bestow liberally; to distribute or scatter in abundance.
- To be wet with falling water, as in the shower-bath.
SHOW'ER, verb intransitive
To rain with showers.
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.