Lexicon :: Strong's H1653 - gešem

Now Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the roar of an abundance of rain.”

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the twentieth [day] of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the open square in front of the house of God, trembling because of [the seriousness of] this matter and because of the heavy rain.

“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’;

And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;

You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

He gave them hail for rain,

With flaming fire in their land.

Like clouds and wind without rain

Is a man who boasts falsely of gifts [he does not give].

The north wind brings forth rain;

And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

‘For behold, the winter is past,

The rain is over and gone.

“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth,

Making it bear and sprout,

And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

‘They do not say in their heart,

“Let us now fear and worship the LORD our God [with profound awe and reverence],

Who gives rain in its season,

Both the autumn and the spring rain,

Who keeps for us

The appointed weeks of the harvest.”

“The ground is cracked

Because there has been no rain on the land;

The farmers are distressed,

And they have covered their heads [in shame].

“So let us know and become personally acquainted with Him; let us press on to know and understand fully the [greatness of the] LORD [to honor, heed, and deeply cherish Him].

His appearing is prepared and is as certain as the dawn,

And He will come to us [in salvation] like the [heavy] rain,

Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

So rejoice, O children of Zion,

And delight in the LORD, your God;

For He has given you the early [autumn] rain in vindication

And He has poured down the rain for you,

The early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, as before.

“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you

When there were still three months until the harvest.

Then I would send rain on one city,

And on another city I would not send rain;

One piece of ground was rained on,

While the part not rained on would dry up.

Ask for rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain.

It is the LORD who makes the thunder clouds;

And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.