Lexicon :: Strong's G5205 - hyetos

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

and the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know the earth[fn] belongs to the LORD.

Moses left Pharaoh and the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail ceased, and rain no longer poured down on the land.

“I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

“But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.

“I[fn] will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.

“Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the LORD is giving you.

“The LORD will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

“The LORD will turn the rain of your land into falling[fn] dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Let my teaching fall like rain

and my word settle like dew,

like gentle rain on new grass

and showers on tender plants.

“Isn’t the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD, and he will send thunder and rain so that you will recognize what an immense evil you committed in the LORD’s sight by requesting a king for yourselves.”

Mountains of Gilboa,

let no dew or rain be on you,

or fields of offerings,[fn]

for there the shield of the mighty was defiled —

the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

“is like the morning light when the sun rises

on a cloudless morning,

the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

When the skies are shut and there is no rain,

because they have sinned against you,

and they pray toward this place

and praise your name,

and they turn from their sins

because you are afflicting them,

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,[fn] said to Ahab, “As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ”

After a while, the wadi dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

“for this is what the LORD God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain on the surface of the land.’ ”

After a long time, the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year: “Go and present yourself to Ahab. I will send rain on the surface of the land.”

Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a rainstorm.”

On the seventh time, he reported, “There’s a cloud as small as a man’s hand coming up from the sea.”

Then Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Get your chariot ready and go down so the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”

“For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the wadi will be filled with water, and you will drink ​— ​you and your cattle and your animals.’

When the skies are shut and there is no rain

because they have sinned against you,

and they pray toward this place

and praise your name,

and they turn from their sins

because you are afflicting[fn] them,

If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people,

He gives rain to the earth

and sends water to the fields.

when he established a limit[fn] for the rain

and a path for the lightning,

They waited for me as for the rain

and opened their mouths as for spring showers.

For he makes waterdrops evaporate;[fn]

they distill the rain into its[fn] mist,

For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,”

and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,

Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain

or clears the way for lightning,

Does the rain have a father?

Who fathered the drops of dew?

May the king be like rain that falls on the cut grass,

like spring showers that water the earth.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain

and brings the wind from his storehouses.

who covers the sky with clouds,

prepares rain for the earth,

and causes grass to grow on the hills.

The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist

is like clouds and wind without rain.

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest,

honor is inappropriate for a fool.

A destitute leader[fn] who oppresses the poor

is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain on the earth;

whether a tree falls to the south or the north,

the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

before the sun and the light are darkened,

and the moon and the stars,

and the clouds return after[fn] the rain;

For now the winter is past;

the rain has ended and gone away.

and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

I will make it a wasteland.

It will not be pruned or weeded;

thorns and briers will grow up.

I will also give orders to the clouds

that rain should not fall on it.

Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

He cuts down[fn] cedars for his use,

or he takes a cypress or an oak.

He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.

He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.