noun · masculine
huetos
Strong’sG5205
rain
stem huet-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 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.
ὑετός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ὕω, to rain), [in LXX chiefly for מָטָר,גֶּשֶׁם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5205 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoo-et-os'
rain, especially a shower
Fromfrom a primary ὕω (to rain);
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
(ὕὠ rain, Refs 8th c.BC+; especially a heavy shower (whereas ὄμβρος is continuous rain, ψεκάς or ψακάς drizzle), Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, rains, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as adjective in superlative, ἄνεμοι ὑετώτατοι the rainiest winds, Refs 8th c.BC+, Attic dialect; later ῠ in ῠετοῖο Refs 2nd 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 | huetos1×ὑετὸς | huetois |
| object accusative | hueton3×ὑετὸν | huetoin1×ὑετοὺς |
| direct address vocative | huetor | huetoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | huetou | huetoiu |
| to, for dative | hueto | huetoi |
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
hueto 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
huetos“rain”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 11:6… exousian kleiara ton ouranon, hina mē huetos brechateiō tain hēmerain tau profēteiau autoiu, …… shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of …
hueton“rain”objectaccusative singular3×
Acts 28:2“rain”… puran proslabela pantoin nin dia ton hueton ton epistēarēnton kai dia tem psuchem.… kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.
Hebrews 6:7… pinarantas ton epi autau erchorōnton pollakis hueton, kai tiktarōntas botanan euthetan ekeinoi dia …For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that …
James 5:18kai palin proseucheta, kai tos ouranos hueton dōata kai tas gēas blastata ton …… he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
huetoin“rain”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 14:17… amarturon heauton afiēkata agathourgarōntos, ouranothen vi huetoin dōarōntos kai kairoin karpoforoin, empimplēarōntos trofēau …… to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling …