βροχή, βροχης, ἡ (βρέχω, which see), a later Greek word (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 291), a besprinkling, watering, rain: used of a heavy shower or violent rainstorm, Mat_7:25; Mat_7:27; Psalm 67:10 (); Psa_104:32 (, for βΖΜωΖΡν.

βροχή brochē 2x rain, Mat_7:25 ; Mat_7:27

† βροχή , -ῆς , ἡ ( < βρέχω ), [in LXX : Psa_68:9 ; Psa_105:32 ( H1653 ) * ;] 1. = βροχετός , a wetting (in Papyri, of irrigation in Egypt; Deiss., LAE , 77). 2. As in MGr . ( Kennedy, Sources , 153), = ὑετός , rain: Mat_7:25 ; Mat_7:27 .†

βροχή [page 118] The evidence already adduced under βρέχω is in itself sufficient to throw suspicion on Thayer s (p. 694) classing this amongst Biblical words, and as a matter of fact we can now cite many instances of βροχή from profane sources. Thus from Ptolemaic times comes P Petr III. 43 (2) recto ii. 13 (B.C. 245) πρὸς τὴν βροχὴν τῆ̣ς̣ τω̣̑ν κλη̣[ρουχι ]κ̣ῶν ἱππέων γῆς , and almost contemporary with the NT passage ( Mat_7:25 ; Mat_7:27 ) is P Oxy II. 280 .5 (A.D. 88 9) a lease of land εἰς ἔτη τέσσαρα βροχὰς τέσσαρες . From this it would appear, as the editors point out, that if there was no βροχή , the year was not to count as one of the four years; and they compare the clause frequently found in leases, ἐὰν δέ τις τοῖς ἑξῆς ἔτεσι ἄβροχος γένηται , παραδεχθήσεται τῷ μεμισθωμένῳ (e.g. P. Oxy I. 101 .25 , A.D. 142). See also Archiv iv. p. 177, and for a notification of ἀβροχία BGU I. 139 (A.D. 202) (= Chrest. I. 225). For βροχή in another sense see P Tebt II. 401 .27 (early i/A.D.), where in the accounts of a beer-seller there is an item βροχῆς (ἀρτάβαι ) β̄ , which seems to be part of the brewing process. In MGr βροχή is rain, βροχερός rainy.

βροχή [Etym: βρέχω] "rain", NTest.

βροχή, -ῆς, ἡ (βρέχω), [in LXX: Psa.67 (68):9, 104 (105):32 (גֶּשֶׁם)* ;] __1. = βροχετός, a wetting (in π., of irrigation in Egypt; Deiss., LAE, 77). __2. As in MGr. (Kennedy, Sources, 153), = ὑετός, rain: Mat.7:25, 27. † (AS)