noun · feminine
brochas
Strong’sG1028
a heavy rain
stem broch-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βροχή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< βρέχω), [in LXX: Ps 67 (68):9, 104 (105):32 (גֶּשֶׁם)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1028 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbrokh-ay'
rain
Fromfrom G1026;
King Jamesrain.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(βρέχω) rain, NT+1st c.AD+
II moistening, Refs 1st c.AD+; steeping, in brewing, Refs 1st c.AD+
III inundation of the Nile, in plural, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 irrigation, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | brochas2×βροχὴ | brochais |
| object accusative | brochan | brochain |
| direct address vocative | brochar | brochair |
| of, belonging to genitive | brochau | brochaiu |
| to, for dative | brocha | brochai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
brocha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
brochas“rain”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 7:25kai katabainata tas brochas kai erchala tois potamois kai pnala …The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the …
Matthew 7:27kai katabainata tas brochas kai erchala tois potamois kai pnala …The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the …