Parallel Strong's Berean Study BibleFor just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, Young's Literal Translation For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, King James Bible For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: Hebrew Forכִּ֡י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction just as כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (ka·’ă·šer) Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that rain הַגֶּ֨שֶׁם (hag·ge·šem) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1653: Rain, shower and snow וְהַשֶּׁ֜לֶג (wə·haš·še·leḡ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7950: Snow fall יֵרֵד֩ (yê·rêḏ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend from מִן־ (min-) Preposition Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of heaven הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם (haš·šā·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky and do not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no return יָשׁ֔וּב (yā·šūḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again without כִּ֚י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction watering הִרְוָ֣ה (hir·wāh) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7301: To be saturated, drink one's fill the earth, הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land making it bud וְהוֹלִידָ֖הּ (wə·hō·w·lî·ḏāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage and sprout, וְהִצְמִיחָ֑הּ (wə·hiṣ·mî·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 6779: To sprout, spring up and providing וְנָ֤תַן (wə·nā·ṯan) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set seed זֶ֙רַע֙ (ze·ra‘) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity to sow לַזֹּרֵ֔עַ (laz·zō·rê·a‘) Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 2232: To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify and food וְלֶ֖חֶם (wə·le·ḥem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain to eat, לָאֹכֵֽל׃ (lā·’ō·ḵêl) Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat |