Lexicon :: Strong's H4306 - māṭār

“Let my teaching drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As the light rain upon the tender grass,

And as the spring showers upon the herb.

“[fn]O mountains of Gilboa,

Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings;

For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,

The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not [fn]anointed with oil.

Is like the morning light when the sun rises,

A morning without clouds,

When the fresh grass springs out of the earth

Through sunshine after rain.’

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Now it happened after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth.”

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict and humble them;

“He gives rain upon the earth

And sends waters upon the fields,

When He made a limit for the rain

And a way for the thunderbolt,

“They waited for me [and for my words] as for the rain,

And they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

“For He draws up the drops of water,

They distill rain from the mist,

“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’;

And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’

“Has the rain a father?

Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

May he come down like rain on the mown grass,

Like showers that water the earth.

Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;

Who makes lightning for the rain,

Who brings the wind from His storehouses;

Who covers the heavens with clouds,

Who provides rain for the earth,

Who makes grass grow on the mountains.

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,

So honor is not fitting for a [shortsighted] [fn]fool.

A poor man who oppresses and exploits the lowly

Is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

“I will turn it into a wasteland;

It will not be pruned or cultivated,

But briars and thorns will come up.

I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Then He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large and roomy pastures.

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of [fn]waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds and the mist to ascend from the end of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain,

And brings out the wind from His treasuries and from His storehouses.

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightnings for the rain

And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Ask for rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain.

It is the LORD who makes the thunder clouds;

And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.