Greek verb · G1026
βρέχω
brechobrekh'-o
to wet; In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bréchō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1026is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1026
to moisten (especially by a shower)
The King James renders it: (send) rain, wash.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
brecho is rendered "to wet; In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to wet".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Matthew 5:45βρέχει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to wet, and In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to wetLuk.7:38, 44. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 7:38As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping… |
| In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕεινto send rain, to rain (Kennedy, Sources, 39, 155): Mat.5:45; trop., β. πῦρ κ. θεῖον, Luk.17:29; impers., βρέχει, it rains | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἔβρεξεν2
- βρέξαι1
- βρέχει1
- βρέχειν1
- βρέχῃ1
- ἔβρεξέν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-PAS-3S
Matthew
one use
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- βρέχειbrecheiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He sends rain
Luke
three uses
As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- βρέχεινbrecheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wet
And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
- ἔβρεξένebrexenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she wet
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- ἔβρεξενebrexenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it rained
James
two uses
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
- βρέξαιbrexaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to rain
- ἔβρεξενebrexenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it did rain
Revelation
one use
These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
- βρέχῃbrecheverb · present active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may fall
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.