Brecho means “wash” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1026 — beythhaarabah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1026 βρέχω (brecho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. brecho (brekh'-o) v. 1. to moisten (especially by a shower) [a primary verb] It has 18 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include rain, sendeth, wash, washed, and rained. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
brecho (brekh'-o) v. 1. to moisten (especially by a shower) [a primary verb] KJV: (send) rain, wash
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1026. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to rain down
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render brecho, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1026 (βρέχω) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
12 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.
And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1026.
and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.
And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
And Moses stretched forth his hand to heaven, and the Lord sent thunderings and hail; and the fire ran along upon the ground, and the Lord rained hail on all the land of Egypt.
I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with my tears.
And rained upon them manna to eat, And gave them the bread of heaven.
And he rained upon them flesh like dust, And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savor shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
Son of man, say to her, Thou art the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon thee in the day of wrath:
And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.
Rejoice then and be glad, ye children of Zion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.
Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1026, grouped by book.
Brecho (Strong's G1026) is a Greek word most simply glossed "wash". brecho (brekh'-o) v. 1. to moisten (especially by a shower) [a primary verb]
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G1026 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1026 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rain, sendeth, wash, washed, and rained. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 12 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1026, with linked reader references where each row is available.