Lexical Summary opsimos: the latter rain Original Word: ὄψιμοςTransliteration: opsimos Phonetic Spelling: (op'-sim-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: the latter rain Meaning: the latter rain Strong's Concordance spring rainFrom opse; later, i.e. Vernal (showering) -- latter. see GREEK opse Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3797: ὄψιμοςὄψιμος, ὄψιμον (ὀψέ), late, latter (Homer, Iliad 2, 325; ὀψιμωτατος σπόρος, Xenophon, oec. 17, 4f; ἐν τοῖς ὀψιμοις τῶν ὑδάτων, of the time of subsidence of the waters of the Nile, Diodorus 1, 10; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 51f)): ὄψιμον ὑετόν, the latter or vernal rain, which falls chiefly in the months of March and April just before the harvest (opposed to the autumnal or πρώϊμος (cf. B. D. under the word |
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