Strong's Lexicon
G1026 — βρέχω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1026 |
|---|---|
| Word: | βρέχω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | a primary verb |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 7 |
| Transliteration: | brecho |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | brekh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to moisten (especially by a shower) |
| KJV Renderings: | (send) rain, wash |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βρέχω; 1 aorist ἐβρεξα; from Pindar and Herodotus down;
1. to moisten, wet, water: Luk 7:38 (τούς πόδας ... δάκρυσιν, cf. Psa 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, Mat 5:45; to send down like rain: κύριος ἔβρεξε θεῖον καί πῦρ, Gen 19:24; χάλαζαν, Exo 9:23; (μάννα, Psalm 77:24 ()); impersonally, βρέχει it rains (cf. Winer’s Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.): Jas 5:17; with added accusative, πῦρ καί θεῖον, Luk 17:29; with added subject, ὑετός, Rev 11:6.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
βρέχω ((send) rain)
Matthew 5:45
- KJV: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust
- GK: όπως γένησθε υιοί του πατρός υμών του εν ουρανοίς ότι τον ήλιον αυτού ανατέλλει επί πονηρούς και αγαθούς και βρέχει επί δικαίους και αδίκους
Luke 7:38
- KJV: And stood at his feet behind weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed with the ointment
- GK: και στάσα παρά τους πόδας αυτού οπίσω κλαίουσα ήρξατο βρέχειν τους πόδας αυτού τοις δάκρυσι και ταις θριξί της κεφαλής αυτής εξέμασσε και κατεφίλει τους πόδας αυτού και ήλειφε τω μύρω
Luke 7:44
- KJV: And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon Seest thou this woman I entered into thine house thou gavest me no water for my feet but she hath washed my feet with tear and wiped with the hairs of her head
- GK: και στραφείς προς την γυναίκα τω Σίμωνι έφη βλέπεις ταύτην την γυναίκα εισήλθόν σου εις την οικίαν ύδωρ επί τους πόδας μου ουκ έδωκας αύτη δε τοις δάκρυσιν έβρεξέ μου τους πόδας και ταις θριξί της κεφαλής αυτής εξέμαξε
Luke 17:29
- KJV: But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed all
- GK: η δε ημέρα εξήλθε Λωτ από Σοδόμων έβρεξε πυρ και θείον απ΄ ουρανού και απώλεσεν άπαντας
James 5:17
- KJV: Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months
- GK: Ηλίας άνθρωπος ην ομοιοπαθής ημίν και προσευχή προσηύξατο του μη βρέξαι και ουκ έβρεξεν επί της γης ενιαυτούς τρεις και μήνας εξ
Revelation 11:6
- KJV: These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will
- GK: ούτοι έχουσιν εξουσίαν κλείσαι τον ουρανόν ίνα μη υετός βρέχη τας ημέρας της προφητείας αυτών και εξουσίαν έχουσιν επί των υδάτων στρέφειν αυτά εις αίμα και πατάξαι την γην εν πάση πληγή οσάκις εάν θελήσωσιν