STRONGS NUMBER G1026

Original Word: βρέχω
Transliteration: brechō
Phonetic Spelling: (brekh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to send rain, to rain
Meaning: to send rain, to rainsend rain, wash.

A primary verb; to moisten (especially by a shower) -- (send) rain, wash.

STRONGS NT 1026: βρέχω

βρέχω; 1 aorist ἐβρεξα; from Pindar and Herodotus down;

1. to moisten, wet, water: Luke 7:38 (τούς πόδας ... δάκρυσιν, cf. Psalm 6:7),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 καί πῦρ, Genesis 19:24; χάλαζαν, Exodus 9:23; (μάννα, Psalm 77:24 ()); impersonally, βρέχει it rains (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.): James 5:17; with added accusative, πῦρ καί θεῖον, Luke 17:29; with added subject, ὑετός, Revelation 11:6.