רָבִיב

raviv · heavy showers

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7241 · appears 6 times in the Bible

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What it means

raviv (רָבִיב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heavy showers”.

Abundant rain.

How to say it

ra·viv

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, abundant rains.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • showers ×3
  • like downpours ×2
  • downpours ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 32:2

    Let my teaching drip like the rain, let my saying distill like the dew, like showers on the vegetation and like downpours on the grass.

  • Psalms 65:10

    Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless.

  • Psalms 72:6

    May he come down like rain on the mown field, like downpours that water the earth.

  • Jeremiah 3:3

    And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

  • Jeremiah 14:22

    Are there among the vapors of the nations any who bring rain? Or do the heavens give showers? Are you not he, YHWH our Elohim? So we hope in you, for you made all these things.

  • Micah 5:7

    And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from YHWH, like showers on the grass, which does not wait for man nor hope for human beings.