Spring rain
מַלְקוֹשׁStrong’s H4456malqosh (mal-qosh)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malqosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “spring rain” and “like spring rain”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Latter rain, spring rainthe March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine
How it's translated
- and spring rain 4
- spring rain 2
- for spring rain 1
- like spring rain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Hosea 1
- Joel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 11:14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
- Job 29:23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- Proverbs 16:15In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
- Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Hosea 6:3Then 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מַלְקוֹשׁ malqosh · spring rain
1) latter rain, spring rain 1a) the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.