βρέχω
to water
‘to water’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G1026 appears in the Present tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
βρεχω (bréchō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to water.” It clusters heavily in Luke, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. With 6 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 5:45. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1026 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 50%
- Johannine 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
- Revelation 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rain 2×, Rained 2×
- American Standard Version: Rain 2×, Rained 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Did not rain 1×, Rain 1×, Rained down 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rain 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1026 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1026 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1026 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1026 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to moisten, wet, water
- to water with rain, to cause to rain, to pour the rain, to send down like rain
Word origin
Origin: a primary word
A primary verb; to moisten (especially by a shower): - (send) rain wash.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1026 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔβρεξεν ébrexen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 17:29 | 2 |
| βρέξαι bréxai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | James 5:17 | 1 |
| βρέχει bréchei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 5:45 | 1 |
| βρέχειν bréchein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 7:38 | 1 |
| βρέχῃ bréchē | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 11:6 | 1 |
| ἔβρεξέν ébrexén | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 7:44 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1026, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βρεχω appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 7 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:5 βρέχω
- Exodus 9:23 βρέχω
- Psalms 6:7 βρέχω
- Isaiah 5:6 βρέχω
- Ezekiel 22:24 βρέχω
- Joel 2:23 βρέχω
- Amos 4:7 βρέχω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1026) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:5 βρέχω No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 19:24 βρέχω Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Exodus 9:23 βρέχω Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 6:7 βρέχω My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
- Psalms 77:24 βρέχω
- Psalms 77:27 βρέχω
- Isaiah 5:6 βρέχω I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, But it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
- Isaiah 34:3 βρέχω Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- Ezekiel 22:24 βρέχω Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
- Ezekiel 38:22 βρέχω With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
- Joel 2:23 βρέχω "Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in Yahweh, your God; For he gives you the former rain in just measure, And he causes the rain to come down for you, The former rain and the latter rain, As before.
- Amos 4:7 βρέχω "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1026) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
