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# גָּשַׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1652

**shower violently** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shower violently [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1652/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גשׁם²: vb.denom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1652/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. (cf. NH Qal Pt. pass. & Hoph.)— Pf. 3 fs. גֻּשְׁמָ֯ה Ez 22:24 be rained upon (גֻּשְׁמָהּ Baer, but v. Ke Sm). cause or send rain, Pt. מַגְשִׁמִים Je 14:22.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[those who\] send rain (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 14:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.14.22/#tree)

הֲיֵ֨שׁ בְּהַבְלֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ מַגְשִׁמִ֔ים וְאִם־הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם יִתְּנ֣וּ רְבִבִ֑ים הֲלֹ֨א אַתָּה־ה֜וּא יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙ וּ֨נְקַוֶּה־לָּ֔ךְ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה עָשִׂ֖יתָ אֶת־כָּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃פ

*Word for word:* \[are\] there? among the.vanities of the.nations \[those.who\].send.rain and or? the heavens do.they.give showers ? not you \[is\].it O.Yahweh God our and we.wait.eagerly for you (dm) you you.have.done (et) all these.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O LORD our God, and do we not wait for Thee? For Thou hast made all these things.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1652.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1652/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).