גָּשַׁם gâsham — to shower violently
Translated in the KJV as rain.
a primitive root; to shower violently.
gâsham in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
מַגְשִׁמִ֔ים Jer 14:22 Participle (active), masculine plural
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›