גֶּשֶׁםgeshem

גֶּ֫שֶׁם: rain, shower (Genesis 7:12; 1 Kings 18:41; Job 37:6; Ezekiel 10:9; Ezekiel 10:13)

Pronunciation: gheh'-shem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1653

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 35 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 7:12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
  • Genesis 8:2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
  • Leviticus 26:4 I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.
  • 1 Kings 17:7 But after a while the brook dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land.
  • 1 Kings 17:14 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!”
  • 1 Kings 18:41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).