H7241 רָבִיב (râbîyb) raw-beeb'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

shower

Strong's Definition

a rain (as an accumulation of drops)

Derivation: from H7231 (רָבַב);

KJV Usage: shower.

TWOT Reference: 2099f

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) copious showers, heavy showers

1a) as bringing fertility

1b) of prophetic influence (fig)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4140

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

רְבִיבִים (ra.viv) — shower. 1) copious showers, heavy showers 1a) as bringing fertility 1b) of prophetic influence (fig)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

רְבִיבִים (H7241)

noun m · רבב

Rain

shower = a brief and usually light fall of rain; ≈ regarded as a blessing

DEU 32:2 · PSA 65:11 · PSA 72:6 · JER 3:3 · JER 14:22 · MIC 5:6

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רְבִיבִים n.m. pl. copious showers, causing fertility base

Bible Occurrences (6)

32:2

65:10 72:6

3:3 14:22

5:7

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute...; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You..., O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind....