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Lexicon :: Strong's G1026 - brechō

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βρέχω
Transliteration
brechō (Key)
Pronunciation
brekh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary word
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Strong’s Definitions

βρέχω bréchō, brekh'-o; a primary verb; to moisten (especially by a shower):—(send) rain, wash.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G1026 in the following manner: rain (3x), wash (2x), rain (with G5205) (1x), send rain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G1026 in the following manner: rain (3x), wash (2x), rain (with G5205) (1x), send rain (1x).

  1. to moisten, wet, water

  2. to water with rain, to cause to rain, to pour the rain, to send down like rain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
βρέχω bréchō, brekh'-o; a primary verb; to moisten (especially by a shower):—(send) rain, wash.
STRONGS G1026:
βρέχω; 1 aorist ἔβρεξα; from Pindar and Herodotus down;
1. to moisten, wet, water: Luke 7:38 (τ. πόδας δάκρυσι, cf. Psalm 6:7), Luke 7:44.
2. in later writings (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 291 [Winers Grammar, 23]) to water with rain (Polybius 16, 12, 3), to cause to rain, to pour the rain, spoken of God: ἐπί τινα, Matthew 5:45; to send down like rain: κύριος ἔβρεξε θεῖον κ. πῦρ, Genesis 19:24; χάλαζαν, Exodus 9:23; [μάννα, Psalm 77:24 (Psalms 78:24)]; impersonally, βρέχει it rains (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.): James 5:17; with added accusative, πῦρ κ. θεῖον, Luke 17:29; with added subject, ὑετός, Revelation 11:6.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
19:24
Exodus
9:23
Psalms
6:7; 78:24
Matthew
5:45
Luke
7:38; 7:44; 17:29
James
5:17
Revelation
11:6

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Strong's Number G1026 matches the Greek βρέχω (brechō),
which occurs 7 times in 6 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 5:45

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:45 - that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:38 - Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:44 - Turning to the woman, he said to Shim`on, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:29 - but in the day that Lot went out from Sedom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:17 - Eliyah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the eretz for three years and six months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:6 - These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the eretz with every plague, as often as they desire.
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