# גֶּשֶׁם (geshem)

Israeli respelling: ge-shem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1653. 33 Old Testament occurrences.

a shower

King James renderings: rain, shower.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/geshem-h1653

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/7/12) — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- [Genesis 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/2) — The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- [Leviticus 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/4) — Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- [1 Kings 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/7) — And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
- [1 Kings 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/14) — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD…
- [1 Kings 18:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/41) — And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
- [1 Kings 18:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/44) — And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said,…
- [1 Kings 18:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/45) — And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went…
- [2 Kings 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/3/17) — For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, b…
- [Ezra 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/9) — Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twenti…
- [Ezra 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/13) — But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for…
- [Job 37:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/6) — For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
- [Psalms 68:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/9) — Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
- [Psalms 105:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/32) — He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
- [Proverbs 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/14) — Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
- [Proverbs 25:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/25/23) — The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
- [Ecclesiastes 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/11/3) — If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the pla…
- [Ecclesiastes 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/2) — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- [Song of Solomon 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/11) — For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
- [Isaiah 44:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/14) — He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he plantet…
- [Isaiah 55:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/10) — For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud…
- [Jeremiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/24) — Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he rese…
- [Jeremiah 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/4) — Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
- [Ezekiel 1:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/1/28) — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the app…
- [Ezekiel 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/11) — Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, s…
- [Ezekiel 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/13/13) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine ange…
- [Ezekiel 34:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/26) — And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be…
- [Ezekiel 38:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/22) — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that ar…
- [Hosea 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/3) — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as…
- [Joel 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/23) — Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to…
- [Amos 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/7) — And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and c…
- [Zechariah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/1) — Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one g…
- [Zechariah 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/17) — And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even u…