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Shower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who shows or exhibits.

2. A fall of rain or hail, a sort of duration. It may be applied to like a fall of snow, but this seldon occurs. It is applied to a fall of rain or hail of short continuance, or of more or less violence, but never to a storm of long continuance.

3. A fall of thing from the air in thick succession; as a shower of darts or arrows; a shower of stones.

4. A copious supply bestowed; liberal distribution; as a great shower of gifts.

Shower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To rain with showers.

Shower [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To water with a shower; to wet copiously with rain; as, to shower the earth.

2. To bestow liberally; to distribute or scatter in abundance.

3. Cesar's favor,

4. That show'rs down greatness on his friends. Addison .

5. To be wet with falling water, as in the shower-bath.

Shower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who shows or exhibits.

2. That which shows; a mirror.

3. A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.

4. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.

5. A copious supply bestowed.

Shower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

Shower [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.

2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.

Showered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wet with a shower; watered abundantly; bestowed or distributed liberally.

Showered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Shower

Showerful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of showers.

Showeriness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being showery.

Showering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Showerless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without showers.

Showerless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rainless; freo from showers.

Showery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent falls of rain.

Showery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.

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14 KJV and 14 BSB verses contain “Shower”

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Job 29:23

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Job 36:28

Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Psalms 65:10

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

Psalms 72:6

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 14:22

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.

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

Ezekiel 13:11

Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

Ezekiel 13:13

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

Hosea 6:3

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Joel 2:23

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

Zechariah 10:1

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

Luke 12:54

And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.

Then Jesus said to the crowds, “As soon as you see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and that is what happens.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:16

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.

Prayer of Azariah 1:42

O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.