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βρέχω

brechōto rain downHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentVerb7 occurrences4 books6 verses

Definition

βρέχω,

[in LXX chiefly for מטר ;]

1. to wet: Luke 7:38, 44.

2. In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν, to send rain, to rain (Kennedy, Sources, 39, 155): Matthew 5:45; trop., β. πῦρ κ. θεῖον, Luke 17:29; impers., βρέχει, it rains: James 5:17; with ὐετός as subj., Revelation 11:6.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as βρέχω:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

7 total
  1. Matthew 5:45βρέχει · sends rain
    …that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  2. Luke 7:38βρέχειν · to wet
    As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
  3. Luke 7:44ἔβρεξέν · she wet
    And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
  4. Luke 17:29ἔβρεξεν · rained down
    But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
  5. James 5:17βρέξαι · rain; ἔβρεξεν · it did not rain
    Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
  6. Revelation 11:6βρέχῃ · will fall
    These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.