גֶּשֶׁם geshem

Hebrew word for “rain” · Strong’s H1653 · used 35 times in 33 verses

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Meaning

rain, shower

How it is translated

Glosses given for geshem in context, with how often each is used:

• rain 27
• rains 5
• shower 2
• like the rain 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 18 (3), 1 Kings 17 (2), Ezra 10 (2), Proverbs 25 (2), Ezekiel 13 (2), Genesis 7 (1), Genesis 8 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), 2 Kings 3 (1), Job 37 (1)

Forms

• גשׁם 12
• הגשׁם 11
• וגשׁם 6
• גשׁמיכם 1
• ומהגשׁמים 1
• גשׁמים 1
• גשׁמיהם 1
• גשׁמי 1
• כגשׁם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with geshem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַלְקוֹשׁ malqosh “spring rain” 4
• אֶלְגָּבִישׁ elgavish “hail” 3
• עָב av “cloud” 4
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 6
• עֵת et “time” 5
• שָׁטַף shataph “to overflow” 3
• אַחְאָב achav “Ahab” 3
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 4
• הָוָה havah “to be” 2
• כֹּה koh “thus” 4
• מָטַר matar “to rain” 2
• שֶׁלֶג sheleg “snow” 2

Key verses

The verses using geshem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:4 — Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
• Isaiah 55:10 — For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give…
• Jeremiah 5:24 — Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the…
• Ezekiel 1:28 — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the…
• Ezekiel 13:11 — Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a…
• Ezekiel 34:26 — And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
• Ezekiel 38:22 — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an…
• Hosea 6:3 — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and…
• Joel 2:23 — Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you…
• Amos 4:7 — And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain…
• Zechariah 10:1 — Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
• Zechariah 14:17 — And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.