UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: ὑετός; -οῦ

Related lemmas: ὕδωρ

Sense 1: rain, rain water

Semantic entry: 2.10

Semantic domains: Natural Substances

Subdomains: Water

Definition: water that falls in drops condensed from water vapor in the atmosphere

Notes: Though ὑετός, which means rain as a substance (for ‘the event of raining,’ see 14.10: βρέχω / 14.10: βροχή / 14.10: ὑετός), generally occurs in contexts in which the focus is upon the ‘the event of raining,’ as supplied by a verb (for example, RV ACT 14:17 · LV ACT 14:17 · Read together ACT 14:17; RV JAM 5:18 · LV JAM 5:18 · Read together JAM 5:18; and RV REV 11:6 · LV REV 11:6 · Read together REV 11:6), in RV HEB 6:7 · LV HEB 6:7 · Read together HEB 6:7 the focus is clearly upon the substance. Though the Greek text of RV HEB 6:7 · LV HEB 6:7 · Read together HEB 6:7 speaks literally of the ground ‘drinking the rain,’ this figurative expression can rarely be reproduced. Sometimes one can use an expression such as ‘soaks up,’ the type of term which might be employed in speaking of a sponge soaking up moisture, but in a number of instances one can only speak of ‘the rain disappearing into the earth’ or ‘the earth causing the rain to disappear into it.’|Translators may be confronted with several problems in selecting an appropriate term for ‘rain,’ since some languages make important distinctions in terms for ‘rain’ depending upon the season of the year and the quantity of rain. For example, rain falling in the dry season may be called by quite a different term from that which falls in the rainy season. Similarly, a series of distinctions may be made in terms for rain depending upon whether one is speaking of a torrential rainstorm or an average rain or a continuous mist.

ACT 14:17: RV ACT 14:17 · LV ACT 14:17 · Read together ACT 14:17

Show passage in OET

OET-RV ACT 14:17

17 but he never left himself without evidence of himself—sending good rains from heaven to give you all fruitful seasons with food to fill your stomachs and happiness to fill your hearts.”

OET-LV ACT 14:17

17 And _yet left himself not without _witness, working _good from _heaven to _you _all giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling with _food and the hearts of _you _all gladness.

HEB 6:7: RV HEB 6:7 · LV HEB 6:7 · Read together HEB 6:7

Show passage in OET

OET-RV HEB 6:7

7 The land that soaks in the frequent rains and grows crops suitable for those who are cultivating it, is receiving a blessing from God,

OET-LV HEB 6:7

7 For/Because land which having _drunk the on it coming often rain, and bearing vegetation suitable, for _those because _of whom also it _is _being _cultivated, is _partaking of _blessing from the god,

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

ACT: RV ACT 14:17 · LV ACT 14:17 · Read together ACT 14:17

HEB: RV HEB 6:7 · LV HEB 6:7 · Read together HEB 6:7

JAM: RV JAM 5:18 · LV JAM 5:18 · Read together JAM 5:18

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

Sense 2: 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.’

ACT 14:17: RV ACT 14:17 · LV ACT 14:17 · Read together ACT 14:17

Show passage in OET

OET-RV ACT 14:17