geshem · heavy rain

What it means

geshem (גֶּשֶׁם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heavy rain”.

Downpour.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Water falling abundantly from the sky, on which the harvests depended.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rain ×27
• rains ×4
• downpour ×3
• downpours ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezra×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 7:12

  And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

• Genesis 8:2

  And the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was held back.

• Leviticus 26:4

  then I will give your rains in their season, and the land will give its yield, and the tree of the field will give its fruit.

• 1 Kings 17:7

  And it happened after some days that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up, and the jug of oil will not run short, until the day that YHWH gives rain on the face of the ground.’”

• 1 Kings 18:41

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

• 1 Kings 18:44

  And it happened at the seventh time that he said, “Look, a small cloud, like the palm of a man, is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Hitch your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.’”

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• 2 Kings 3:17

  For thus says YHWH, ‘You will not see wind, and you will not see rain, yet that wadi will be filled with water, and you will drink, you and your livestock and your animals.’

• Ezra 10:9

  And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month. And all the people sat in the square of the house of Elohim, trembling because of the matter and because of the rains.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is the time of rains, and there is no strength to stand outside; and the work is not for one day nor for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Job 37:6

  For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the downpour of rain, and to the downpour of his mighty rains.

• Psalms 68:9

  A generous rain you poured out, Elohim; your inheritance, when it was weary, you made it firm.

• Psalms 105:32

  He gave hail for their rain, flaming fire in their land.

• Proverbs 25:14

  Clouds and wind and no rain is a man who boasts of a false gift.

• Proverbs 25:23

  The north wind brings forth rain, and indignant faces, a secret tongue.

• Ecclesiastes 11:3

  If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Song of Songs 2:11

  for look, the winter has passed; the rain is over, it has gone away.

• Isaiah 44:14

  To cut down cedars for himself, he takes a holm oak and an oak, and makes it strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

• Isaiah 55:10

  For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth and make it give birth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

• Jeremiah 5:24

  And they have not said in their heart, “Let us fear now YHWH our Elohim, who gives rain, the early and the late, in its season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.”

• Jeremiah 14:4

  Because the ground is cracked, for there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

• Ezekiel 1:28

  Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. That was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And I saw it, and I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

• Ezekiel 13:11

  say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a wind of storms will burst it open.

• Ezekiel 13:13

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make burst a wind of storms in my fury, and a torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in fury for total destruction.

• Ezekiel 34:26

  And I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the rain in its season; rains of blessing they will be.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and torrential rain, and hailstones, fire, and sulfur I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.

• Hosea 6:3

  And let us know, let us press on to know YHWH; like the dawn, his going out is sure; and he will come to us like the rain, like the late rain that waters the earth.”

• Joel 2:23

  And children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in YHWH your Elohim; for he has given you the early rain for righteousness, and has brought down for you the rain, early rain and late rain, as at the first.

• Amos 4:7

  And I also withheld from you the rain when there were still three months to the harvest; and I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain; one field would be rained on, and the field on which it did not rain would dry up.

• Zechariah 10:1

  Ask of YHWH rain in the time of the late rain; YHWH makes the lightning flashes, and rain in downpours he will give them, to each grass in the field.

• Zechariah 14:17

  And it will happen that whoever does not go up from among the families of the earth to Jerusalem to bow down before the King, YHWH Tsevaot, there will be no downpour on them.

And 2 more times.