UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: βροχή

Sense 1: rain, to rain

Semantic entry: 14.10

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Rain

Definition: rain, whether light or torrential

Notes: Though most languages have a general term for rain, the event of raining is more frequently referred to by a verb rather than by a noun, since rain is something which takes place and is not regarded as a thing or mass, unless, of course, one is referring to the water which comes down as rain, that is to say, ‘rain water’ (see 2.10: ὑετός). In some languages the event of raining is generally expressed idiomatically as ‘God is urinating.’ This might appear unduly crude and anthropomorphic, but to the speakers of such a language the expression is often quite acceptable and has no undesirable connotations.|Though in English one may use an impersonal subject with the verb ‘to rain,’ for example, ‘it is raining,’ many languages require some kind of personal agent, for example, ‘God is raining,’ or an impersonal agent such as ‘the sky is raining’ or ‘the clouds are raining.’

JAM 5:17: RV JAM 5:17 · LV JAM 5:17 · Read together JAM 5:17

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OET-RV JAM 5:17

17 Eliyah (Elijah) was a person just similar to us, and when he prayed for the rain to stop, it stopped, and it didn’t rain again for three and a half years.

OET-LV JAM 5:17

17 Aʸlias/(ʼĒliy^yāh) a_man was like _natured to _us, and with _prayer he _prayed which not for _it to _rain, and not it _rained on the earth, three years and six months.

REV 11:6: RV REV 11:6 · LV REV 11:6 · Read together REV 11:6

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OET-RV REV 11:6

6 Those witnesses have the power to stop the rain so that it doesn’t rain while they’re speaking out, and they have power to turn rivers and lakes into blood, and to damage the earth with every type of disaster just as often as they want.

OET-LV REV 11:6

6 These are _having the power to _shut the sky, in _order _that no rain may _be _raining in _the days of _the prophecy of _them, and power they _are _having over the waters, to _be _turning them into blood, and to _strike the earth with every plague, as _often _as if they _may _want.

Sense 2: to send rain, to cause it to rain

Semantic entry: 14.11

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Rain

Definition: to cause rain to fall

Notes: In a number of languages one cannot say literally ‘to send rain,’ for this would seem to imply that someone was carrying the rain to some destination. It may be more appropriate, therefore, to speak of ‘causing rain to fall’ or ‘causing rain to come down.’ It may be necessary, however, in some languages to indicate whether the occurrence of rain is for the detriment or the benefit of persons involved, and therefore it may be necessary to say in some instances ‘to cause rain to come down upon for the benefit of’; otherwise the reader might infer that the rain was some kind of punishment.

MAT 5:45: RV MAT 5:45 · LV MAT 5:45 · Read together MAT 5:45

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45 so that you might become children of your father in the heavens, because he causes his sun to rise on both evil and good people, and sends the rain for both godly and ungodly people.

OET-LV MAT 5:45

45 so _that you _all _may _become sons of _the father of _you _all who in the_heavens, because he _is _rising the sun of _him on evil and good, and is _raining on the_righteous and unrighteous.

LUK 17:29: RV LUK 17:29 · LV LUK 17:29 · Read together LUK 17:29

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29 but on the day that Lot walked out of Sedom, fire and sulfur rained down from the sky and destroyed everything.

OET-LV LUK 17:29

29 but in _that day Lōt/(Lōţ) came _out from Sodoma/(Şədom), fire and brimstone rained from the_sky and destroyed all.

Sense 3: to wet, to make wet, to moisten

Semantic entry: 79.79

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Wet, Dry

Definition: to make something wet or moist

Notes: In a number of languages a clear distinction is made in the use of terms which imply different quantities of moisture, and one must make certain that the choice of a term in RV LUK 7:38 · LV LUK 7:38 · Read together LUK 7:38 is in keeping with this context of crying and moistening by means of tears.

LUK 7:38: RV LUK 7:38 · LV LUK 7:38 · Read together LUK 7:38

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OET-RV LUK 7:38

38 She stood weeping behind Yeshua’s feet, wetting his feet with her tears. Then she used her hair to wipe off the tears and kissed his feet and rubbed the lotion into them.

OET-LV LUK 7:38

38 and having _stood behind by the feet of _him weeping, she _began to _be _wetting the feet of _him with _the, tears, and she _was _wiping _off them with _the hairs of _the head of _her, and was _kissing the feet of _him, and was _anointing them with _the ointment.

LUK 7:44: RV LUK 7:44 · LV LUK 7:44 · Read together LUK 7:44

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44 Then looking at the woman he said to Shim’on, “You see this woman? I came into your house but you didn’t give me any water to wash my feet, yet she wet my feet with her tears and then wiped them off with her hair.

OET-LV LUK 7:44

44 And having _been _turned to the woman, he _was _saying to_ the _Simōn:
You _are _seeing this the woman?
I _came _in into the house of _you, you_ not _gave water to _me for feet, but this woman wet the feet of _me the with _tears, and wiped _off them with _the the_hairs of _her.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

βρέχω

Form 1

Sense 1: rain, to rain

Sense 2: to send rain, to cause it to rain

Sense 3: to wet, to make wet, to moisten