Shower
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
(2): ( v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
(3): ( n.) One who shows or exhibits.
(4): ( n.) That which shows; a mirror.
(5): ( n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
(6): ( v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
(7): ( n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
(8): ( n.) A copious supply bestowed.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
denotes a "heavy shower, a storm of rain," Luke 12:54 .
King James Dictionary [3]
Shower n. One who shows or exhibits.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
shou´ẽr : (1) רביבים , rebhı̄bhı̄m , a plural form apparently denoting gentle rain, usually used figuratively , as in Deuteronomy 32:2; Psalm 72:6; Micah 5:7 . (2) גּשם , geshem , used of gentle rain in Job 37:6 : "shower of rain," the King James Version "small rain"; used of the flood in Genesis 7:12 . Figuratively , of blessing, "showers of blessing" ( Ezekiel 34:26 ); of destruction: "There shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it" ( Ezekiel 13:13 ). (3) זרם , zerem , usually storm or tempest (compare Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 28:2 ): "They are wet with the showers of the mountain" ( Job 24:8 ). (4) ὄμβτος , ómbros ( Luke 12:54 ), Rain is unknown in Palestine in the long summer of 5 or 6 months. A few showers usually fall in September, succeeded by fine weather for some weeks before the beginning of the heavy and long-continued winter rains.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
is the rendering in the A.V. of גֶּשֶׁ ם , Gesheam ( Ezekiel 13:11; Ezekiel 13:13; Ezekiel 34:26), a heavy rain (as elsewhere rendered); Ὄμβρος ( Luke 12:54); זֶרֶ ם , Zerem ( Job 24:8), a pouring rain (elsewhere "storm," "tempest," etc.); and רְבֵיבַי ם , Rebibism (from their multitude), Drops ( Deuteronomy 32:2;. Psalms 65:10; Psalms 72:7; Jeremiah 3:3; Jeremiah 14:2; Micah 5:7). (See Rain).
