ὑετός
hyetos · rain
Greek word · Strong’s number G5205 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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hyetos (ὑετός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “rain”.
How to say it
hy·e·tos
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
- The water that falls from the clouds on the earth.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- rain ×4
- rains ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 14:17
and yet he did not leave himself without testimony, doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Acts 28:2
And the natives showed us no ordinary kindness, for kindling a fire they welcomed all of us because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold.
- Hebrews 6:7
For land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
- James 5:18
And he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the land produced its fruit.
- Revelation 11:6
These have the authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they want.