רָבִיבrâbîyb
copious showers, causing fertility (Jeremiah 3:3; Deuteronomy 32:2; Jeremiah 14:22; Psalms 65:11; Micah 5:6)
Pronunciation: raw-beeb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7241
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall on you like rain; let my speech settle like dew. Let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.
- Psalms 65:10 You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
- Psalms 72:6 May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers that water the earth.
- Jeremiah 3:3 That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
- Micah 5:7 Then the remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like dew sent by the Lord or like rain falling on the grass, which no one can hold back and no one can restrain.
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).