ὑετός
hyetós · G5205 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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rain, rain water
Water that falls in drops condensed from water vapor in the atmosphere
ExamplesHebrews 6:7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
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rain, to rain
Rain, whether light or torrential
ExamplesActs 14:17 yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Acts 28:2 The natives showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and took us all in because of the rain that had started and because of the cold.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔρχομαιto come 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐφίστημιto stand by, to come upon 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βρέχωrain 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 2
- πίνωto drink 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- βροχή brochḗ · G1028 · rain, to rain
- Both terms denote rain. ὑετός may carry a nuance toward showers or specific rainfall events, though the limited attestation of βροχή makes any systematic distinction difficult to establish.
In the other Testament 2 words
- מָטַר mâṭar · H4306 · rain
- Direct translation equivalent denoting the meteorological phenomenon of rain, with Greek ὑετός specifically emphasizing shower-like precipitation while Hebrew מָטַר serves as the general term for rain.
- גֶּשֶׁם geshem · H1653 · rain
- The Hebrew term for rain/shower that the LXX translators consistently rendered with ὑετός in passages describing precipitation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Rain, to rain14.10
- James 5:18 — “Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.”
- Rain, rain water2.10
- Acts 14:17 — “yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑετοῦ, ὁ (ὕω to rain), from Homer down, the Sept. for גֶּשֶׁם and מָטָר, rain: Acts…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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