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βρέχω

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Gloss: to rain down

Transliteration: brechō

Strong’s: G1026

βρέχω,
[in LXX chiefly for מטר ;]
__1. to wet: Luk.7:38, 44.
__2. In late Gk. writers and vernac. = ὕειν, to send rain, to rain (Kennedy, Sources, 39, 155): Mat.5:45; trop., β. πῦρ κ. θεῖον, Luk.17:29; impers., βρέχει, it rains: Jas.5:17; with ὐετός as subj., Rev.11:6.
† (AS)

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