גָּשַׁם
gâsham · H1652 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to bring rain
To cause rain to fall
ExamplesJeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, LORD our God? Therefore we wait for You, For You are the one who has done all these things.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יֵשׁthere is, there are 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מָטַר mâṭar · H4305 · to send rain, to rain (things)
- Both are verbs meaning "(to cause) to rain," with essentially identical senses describing the same meteorological action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rain001002005011
- The verb describes causing rain to fall, used rhetorically in Jeremiah's question of whether any idol can grant rain as the LORD does.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1652. gasham [גשׁם] verb denominative (compare Late Hebrew Qal Passive participle &…
[גשׁם] verb denominative (compare Late Hebrew Qal Passive participle & Hoph`al) —
Pu`al Perfect3feminine singular גֻּשְׁמָ֯ה Eze 22:24 be rained upon (גֻּשְׁמָהּ Baer, but see Ke Sm).
Hiph`il cause or send rain, Participle מַגְשִׁמִים Jer 14:22.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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