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Headword:
*(/uw
Adler number: upsilon,126
Translated headword: I rain
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] I send [like] rain; [used] with an accusative. "And he rains fire for you out of heaven."[1]
Greek Original:*(/uw: to\ bre/xw: ai)tiatikh=|. kai\ u(/ei soi pu=r e)c ou)ranou=.
Notes:
cf.
upsilon 73,
upsilon 121,
upsilon 127. Verbs of precipitation are usually impersonal unless the subject is divine: cf.
omicron 231.
[1] Precise quotation unidentifiable (though of course its "fire out of heaven" element is copiously attested, esp. in Christian writers).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 October 2002@00:34:52.
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