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Strong's G5205 ὑετός (hyetos)

Hyetos means “rain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5205 — nid (“moving”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5205
Language Greek
Linked Usages 82
Books 29

Strong's G5205 Quick Answer

Strong's G5205 ὑετός (huetos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. huetos (hoo-et-os') n. 1. rain, especially a shower [from a primary huo "to rain"] It has 82 linked Bible usages across 29 books. Visible English usage signals include rain. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
huetos (hoo-et-os') n. 1. rain, especially a shower [from a primary huo "to rain"]
Usage
82 linked usages
Books
29 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
rain

Meaning and Definition

huetos (hoo-et-os') n. 1. rain, especially a shower [from a primary huo "to rain"] KJV: rain

Original Word
ὑετός
Transliteration
huetos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5205. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

rain

Usage: ὑετός, -οῦ, ὁ (ὕω, to rain), [in LXX chiefly for ;] rain: Act.14:17 28:2, Heb.6:7, Jas.5:18, Rev.11:6; ὄψιμος (which see), sc. ὑ., Jas.5:7.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5205 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render huetos, 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.

rain Acts 14:17

How Strong's G5205 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 68 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5205 (ὑετός) appears 80 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5205 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5205 in the New Testament

6 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 14:17 KJV

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 28:2 KJV

And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

Hebrews 6:7 KJV

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

Strong's G5205 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

68 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 7:4 Septuagint / Brenton

For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 8:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.

Strong's G5205 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 8:31 Septuagint / Brenton

Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we shall faint no more.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:16 Septuagint / Brenton

For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, Were scourged by the strength of thine arm: With strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, And through fire were they consumed.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:22 Septuagint / Brenton

But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, That they might know that fire burning in the hail, And sparkling in the rain, Did destroy the fruits of the enemies.

Usage Excerpts

First 82 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5205.

Genesis 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
Genesis 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Exodus 9:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to him, When I shall have departed from the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord, and the thunderings shall cease, and the hail and the rain shall be no longer, that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord’s.
Exodus 9:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses went forth from Pharaoh out of the city, and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunders ceased and the hail, and the rain did not drop on the earth.
Exodus 9:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders ceased, he continued to sin; and he hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants.
Leviticus 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.
Deuteronomy 11:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then he shall give to thy land the early and latter rain in its season, and thou shalt bring in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy 11:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.
Deuteronomy 28:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt thou lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
Deuteronomy 28:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.
Deuteronomy 32:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let my speech be looked for as the rain, And my words come down as dew, As the shower upon the herbage, And as snow upon the grass.
1 Kingdoms 12:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain; and know ye and see, that your wickedness is great which ye have wrought before the Lord, having asked for yourselves a king.
1 Kingdoms 12:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day; and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.
2 Kingdoms 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let not dew nor rain descend upon you, nor fields of firstfruits be upon you, For there the shield of the mighty ones has been grievously assailed; The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
2 Kingdoms 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, From the light of which the Lord passed on, And as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.
3 Kingdoms 8:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against thee, and they shall pray toward this place, and shall make confession to thy name, and shall turn from their sins when thou shalt have humbled them,
3 Kingdoms 8:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then thou shalt hear from heaven, and be merciful to the sins of thy servant and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt show them the good way to walk in it, and thou shalt give rain upon the earth which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
3 Kingdoms 17:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite of Tishbe of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.
3 Kingdoms 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.
3 Kingdoms 17:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, The pitcher of meal shall not fail, and the cruse of oil shall not diminish, until the day that the Lord gives rain upon the earth.
3 Kingdoms 18:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, and appear before Ahab, and I will bring rain upon the face of the earth.
3 Kingdoms 18:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, and eat and drink, for there is a sound of the coming of rain.
3 Kingdoms 18:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servant went again seven times: and it came to pass at the seventh time, that, behold, a little cloud like the sole of a man’s foot brought water; and he said, Go up, and say to Ahab, Make ready thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain overtake thee.
3 Kingdoms 18:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heaven grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab wept, and went to Jezreel.
4 Kingdoms 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet this valley shall be filled with water, and ye, and your flocks, and your cattle shall drink.
2 Chronicles 6:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against thee, and when they shall pray toward this place, and praise thy name, and shall turn from their sins, because thou shalt afflict them;
2 Chronicles 6:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then shalt thou hearken from heaven, and thou shalt be merciful to the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt show them the good way in which they shall walk; and thou shalt send rain upon thy land, which thou gavest to thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 7:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
Job 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who gives rain upon the earth, Sending water on the earth:
Job 28:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, And made a way for the pealing of the thunder.
Job 29:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, So they waited for my speech.
Job 36:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the drops of rain are numbered by him, And shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
Job 37:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Commanding the snow, Be thou upon the earth, And the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of his might.
Job 38:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And who prepared a course for the violent rain, And a way for the thunders;
Job 38:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who is the rain’s father? And who has generated the drops of dew?
Psalms 71:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; And as drops falling upon the earth.
Psalms 134:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth: He has made lightnings for the rain: He brings winds out of his treasures.
Psalms 146:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who covers the heaven with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, And green herb for the service of men;
Proverbs 32:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 33:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Proverbs 35:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ecclesiastes 11:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If the clouds be filled with rain, They pour it out upon the earth: And if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, In the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes 12:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
While the sun and light are not darkened, Nor the moon and the stars; Nor the clouds return after the rain:
Song of Solomon 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For, behold, the winter is past, The rain is gone, it has departed.
Isaiah 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.
Isaiah 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Isaiah 30:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land; and the bread of the fruit of thy land shall be plenteous and rich: and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.
Isaiah 44:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, even a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,
Isaiah 55:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food:
Jeremiah 5:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.
Jeremiah 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Jeremiah 28:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
At his voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.
Ezekiel 1:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of the brightness round about.
Ezekiel 13:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.
Ezekiel 13:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in my fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.
Ezekiel 22:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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:
Ezekiel 34:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will settle them round about my mountain; and I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing.
Ezekiel 38:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee.
Ezekiel 38:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Ezekiel 40:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.
Hosea 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
Joel 2:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Amos 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Zechariah 10:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.
Acts 14:17 New Testament, KJV
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 28:2 New Testament, KJV
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Hebrews 6:7 New Testament, KJV
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
James 5:7 New Testament, KJV
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
James 5:18 New Testament, KJV
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Revelation 11:6 New Testament, KJV
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.
Judith 8:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we shall faint no more.
Wisdom of Solomon 16:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, Were scourged by the strength of thine arm: With strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, And through fire were they consumed.
Wisdom of Solomon 16:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, That they might know that fire burning in the hail, And sparkling in the rain, Did destroy the fruits of the enemies.
Wisdom of Sirach 35:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; And he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.
Wisdom of Sirach 40:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, And shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.
Wisdom of Sirach 43:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The eye marveleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, And the heart is astonished at the raining of it.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:52 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Who then may not know that they are no gods?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5205, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
James 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5205 FAQ

What does hyetos (ὑετός) mean?

Hyetos (Strong's G5205) is a Greek word most simply glossed "rain". huetos (hoo-et-os') n. 1. rain, especially a shower [from a primary huo "to rain"]

How many times is hyetos (ὑετός) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 82 linked usages for Strong's G5205 across 29 books.

Where can I study hyetos (ὑετός) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5205 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hyetos (ὑετός)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rain. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5205 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 68 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5205, with linked reader references where each row is available.