zerem · rainstorm, downpour

What it means

zerem (זֶרֶם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rainstorm, downpour”.

A downpour, a heavy rain that falls all at once.

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. Heavy rain that falls all at once.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Isaiah×7
• Habakkuk×1

• Job 24:8

  With the downpour of the mountains they are drenched, and for lack of refuge they hug the rock.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the downpour, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the tyrants is like a downpour against a wall.

• Isaiah 28:2

  Look, Adonai has one strong and mighty, like a downpour of hail, a destroying storm, like a downpour of mighty waters that sweep away; he casts it down to the earth with the hand.

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.

• Isaiah 32:2

  And each one will be like a cover from the wind and a hiding place from the downpour, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a heavy crag in a weary land.

• Habakkuk 3:10

  The mountains saw you and writhed; the downpour of waters passed by; the deep gave its voice; on high its hands it lifted up.

And 2 more times.