βρέχωbréchō
to moisten (especially by a shower)
Greek (New Testament) · G1026
Meanings
1. to wet: Luke 7:38, Luke 7:44.
2. In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν, to send rain, to rain: 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.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 5:45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
- Luke 7:38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.
- Luke 7:44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
- Luke 17:29 until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- James 5:17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!
- Revelation 11:6 They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.