The word in Scripture

Rain in the Bible

The word rain appears 102 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Rain is God's provision poured from heaven on the just and unjust. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What rain means in the Bible

Rain is God's provision poured from heaven on the just and unjust.

Where the word rain appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word rain appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”Genesis 7:12

“The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;”Genesis 8:2

“Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.”Psalms 11:6

“Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.”Psalms 147:8

“In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.”Proverbs 16:15

“As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.”Proverbs 26:1

“And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.”Isaiah 5:6

“And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”James 5:18