Original Word: βρέχω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: brechó
Pronunciation: brekh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (brekh'-o)
KJV: (send) rain, wash
NASB: rain, wet, fall, rained, sends rain
Word Origin: [a primary verb]

1. to moisten (especially by a shower)

send rain, wash.

A primary verb; to moisten (especially by a shower) -- (send) rain, wash.

Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
to send rain, to rain
NASB Translation
fall (1), rain (2), rained (1), sends rain (1), wet (2).

STRONGS NT 1026: βρέχω

βρέχω; 1 aorist ἐβρεξα; from Pindar and Herodotus down;

1. to moisten, wet, water: Luke 7:38 (τούς πόδας ... δάκρυσιν, cf. Psalm 6:7),44.

2. in later writings (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 291 (Winers Grammar, 23)) to water with rain (Polybius 16, 12, 3), to cause to rain, to pour the rain, spoken of God: ἐπί τινα, Matthew 5:45; to send down like rain: κύριος ἔβρεξε θεῖον καί πῦρ, Genesis 19:24; χάλαζαν, Exodus 9:23; (μάννα, Psalm 77:24 ()); impersonally, βρέχει it rains (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.): James 5:17; with added accusative, πῦρ καί θεῖον, Luke 17:29; with added subject, ὑετός, Revelation 11:6.

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