Lexicon
גָּשַׁם
ga.sham
H1652
H:V Hebrew

to rain

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ga.sham denotes bringing rain, in a question about whether the nations’ false gods can do so.

The attested use describes bringing rain: Jeremiah 14:22 asks whether any of the nations’ false gods can do this.

Senses in use

  1. Bringing rain · dominant

    In Jeremiah 14:22, the masculine plural active participle occurs in the question about whether any of the nations’ false gods can bring rain. The APB renders the surrounding question, “Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain?”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Jeremiah 14:22, the APB presents the clause as a question about false gods that can “bring rain.” This rendering is treated as confirmation of the clause rather than a precise lexical equivalence.

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