זֶ֫רֶם
rain
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 5 times (56%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (44%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2230 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 4:6 מִ/זֶּ֖רֶם prep + n c ms There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4 מִ/זֶּ֨רֶם֙ כְּ/זֶ֥רֶם prep + n c ms prep + n c ms cs For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Isaiah 28:2 כְּ/זֶ֥רֶם כְּ֠/זֶרֶם prep + n c ms cs prep + n c ms cs Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isaiah 30:30 וָ/זֶ֖רֶם conj + n c ms Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
- Isaiah 32:2 זָ֑רֶם n c ms A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Habakkuk 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.
זרם — transliterated zerem — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “rain.” Its uses cluster heavily in Isaiah (71% of all occurrences). With 7 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Job 24:8. From the same root come זרם and זרמה. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2230 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 86%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 14%
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: Tempest 3×, Storm 2×
- American Standard Version: Tempest 4×, Storm 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Storm 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Storm 3×, Like a storm of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2230 across 9 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 H2230 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H2230 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2230 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- rain-shower, thunderstorm, flood of rain, downpour, rain-storm
Word origin
n.m. Hb. 3:10 flood of rain, rain-storm, downpour (Aramaic זַרְמִית id.)—abs. ז׳ Is 4:6 + 2 times; זָ֑רֶם Is 32:2; cstr. זֶרֶם Jb 24:8 + 4 times; Is 4:6 (‖ מָטָר)); ז׳ מַיִם Is 28:2 Hb 3:10; ז׳ הָרִים Jb 24:8, i.e. such as falls among mts. cf. Di; ז׳ בָּרָד Is 28:2; מַחְסֶה מִזֶּרֶם 25:4, זֶרֶם קִיר v 4 i.e. such as dashes against a wall, 32:2 (‖ רוּחַ), נֶפֶץ וָזֶרֶם וְאֶבֶן בָּרָד 30:30.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זרם (zâram) (H2229) — to pour out.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H2230 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּ/זֶ֥רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 25:4 | 2 |
| וָ/זֶ֖רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 30:30 | 1 |
| זֶ֥רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Habakkuk 3:10 | 1 |
| זָ֑רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 32:2 | 1 |
| כְּ֠/זֶרֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 28:2 | 1 |
| מִ/זֶּ֖רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 4:6 | 1 |
| מִ/זֶּ֣רֶם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 24:8 | 1 |
| מִ/זֶּ֨רֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 25:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2230, 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.
Derives from
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
