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# גֶּשֶׁם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1653

**rain** — used 35 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1653/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫שֶׁם²: n.m. rain, shower [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1653/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 7:12 rain, shower (NH id., conn. wi. above √ dub.)—abs. ג׳ Gn 7:12 +; גָּ֑שֶׁם 1 K 18:41 +; cstr. גֶּשֶׁם Jb 37:6(×2) +; pl. גְּשָׁמִים Ezr 10:9, 13; cstr. גִּשְׁמֵי Ez 34:26; sf. גִּשְׁמֵיכֶם Lv 26:4; גִּשְׁמֵיהֶם ψ 105:32;—rain, shower Gn 7:12; 8:2 (both J) Lv 26:4 (H) Ho 6:3 Am 4:7; Je 5:24; 14:4; Is 44:14; 55:10; Ez 1:28 Jo 2:23 (‖ מוֹרֶה, מַלְקוֹשׁ); 1 K 17:7, 14; 18:45 (ג׳ גדול) 2 K 3:17; Pr 25:14, 23; Ec 11:3; Ct 2:11 ψ 105:32 וּמֵהַגּ׳ Ezr 10:9 and because of the rains, cf. v 13; קוֹל הֲמוֹן הַגּ׳ 1 K 18:41 cf. v 44 Zc 14:17; Ec 12:2; גֶּשֶׁם מָטָ֑ר וְג׳ מִטְרוֹת עֻזּוֹ Jb 37:6; מְטַר־גֶּשֶׁם Zc 10:1; cf. ג׳ נְדָבוֹת ψ 68:10; fig. of blessing Ez 34:26, ג׳ בְּרָכָה v 26; of destruction ג׳ שֹׁטֵף Ez 13:11, 13 cf. 38:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rain (27); rains (4); \[is\] rains (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.32/#tree)

נָתַ֣ן גִּשְׁמֵיהֶ֣ם בָּרָ֑ד אֵ֖שׁ לֶהָב֣וֹת בְּאַרְצָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.made rains their hail a.fire of.flames \[was\].in land their

*JPS 1917:* He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

[Proverbs 25:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.23/#tree)

ר֣וּחַ צָ֭פוֹן תְּח֣וֹלֵֽל גָּ֑שֶׁם וּפָנִ֥ים נִ֝זְעָמִ֗ים לְשׁ֣וֹן סָֽתֶר׃

*Word for word:* a.wind of.\[the\].north it.brings.forth rain and faces indignant a.tongue of.secrecy

*JPS 1917:* The north wind bringeth forth rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1653.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1653/): 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).