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Lexicon :: Strong's H4306 - māṭār

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מָטָר
Transliteration
māṭār
Pronunciation
maw-tawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1187a

Strong’s Definitions

מָטַר mâṭar, maw-tawr'; from H4305; rain:—rain.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H4306 in the following manner: rain (36x), great (1x), small (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H4306 in the following manner: rain (36x), great (1x), small (1x).

  1. rain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָטַר mâṭar, maw-tawr'; from H4305; rain:—rain.
STRONGS H4306: Abbreviations
† מָטָר noun masculineExodus 9:33. rain (Assyrian meṭru, DlHWB 406; Arabic bdb056403; Sabean (Minaean) מטר HomChrestom. 127; Aramaic מַטְרָא, bdb056404); — מ׳ Exodus 9:33 + 30 times; construct מְטַר Deuteronomy 11:11 + 5 times; plural construct מִטְרוֺת Job 37:6; — rain, as watering earth, especially Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:11 הַשָּׁמַיִם מ׳; as blessing sent (verb usually נָתַן and withheld by י׳ Deuteronomy 11:14 (|| יוֺרֶה, מַלְקוֺשׁ); Deuteronomy 11:17 (here אַרְצְכֶס מְ׳); Deuteronomy 28:12; 1 Kings 8:35, 36; 1 Kings 17:1 (|| טַל), 1 Kings 18:12; 1 Chronicles 6:26; 1 Chronicles 6:27; 1 Chronicles 7:13; Job 5:10 (|| מַיִם), compare Job 28:26; Job 36:27; Psalm 147:8 (verb מֵכִין); so זַרְעֲךָ מְ׳ Isaiah 30:23; Zechariah 10:1 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Zechariah 10:1 מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם; גֶּשֶׁם מָטָר Job 37:6, גֶּשֶׁם מִטְרוֺת עֻזּוֺ Job 37:6 (|| שֶׁלַג); Job 38:28 (|| אֶגְלֵיטָֿ֑ל) בְּרָקִים לַמּ׳ Psalm 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13 = Jeremiah 51:16 (|| הֲמוֺן מַיִם); also in אַרְצְךָ אָבָק וְעָפָר נָתַן אֵת מְ׳ Deuteronomy 28:24; compare Isaiah 5:6 (where accusative of congnate meaning with verb הִמְטִיר); wish of David 2 Samuel 1:21 (|| טַל); בַּקָּצִיר מ׳ simile of the unseasonable, Proverbs 26:1 (|| שֶׁלֶג בַּקַּיִץ); sent by extraordary supernatural power as sign Exodus 9:33, 34 (J; both || בָּרָר, קֹלוֺת) compare 1 Samuel 12:17, 18 (|| קֹלוֺת); simile of refreshment Deuteronomy 32:2 (|| טַל), Job 29:23 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Psalm 72:6 (|| רְבִיבִים), compare 2 Samuel 23:4; as destructive Psalm 28:3 מָטָר סֹחֵף); also figurative, Isaiah 4:6 (|| זֶרֶם).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

9:33; 9:33; 9:33; 9:34

Deuteronomy

11:11; 11:11; 11:14; 11:17; 28:12; 28:24; 32:2

1 Samuel

12:17; 12:18

2 Samuel

1:21; 23:4

1 Kings

8:35; 8:36; 17:1; 18:12

1 Chronicles

6:26; 6:27; 7:13

Job

5:10; 28:26; 29:23; 36:27; 37:6; 37:6; 37:6; 38:28

Psalms

28:3; 72:6; 135:7; 147:8

Proverbs

26:1

Isaiah

4:6; 5:6; 30:23

Jeremiah

10:13; 51:16

Zechariah

10:1; 10:1

H4306

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Strong's Number H4306 matches the Hebrew מָטָר (māṭār),
which occurs 38 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not any more poured on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, and he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he, and his bondmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - but the land, whereunto ye are passing over to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, which drinketh water of the rain of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - that I will give rain to your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17 - Is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I will call unto Jehovah, and he will send thunder and rain; and ye shall perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of Jehovah in asking for yourselves a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:18 - And Samuel called to Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, no rain upon you, nor fields of heave-offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, as not anointed with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:26 - In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27 - For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:6 - For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:6 - He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7 - Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; who maketh lightnings for the rain; who bringeth the wind out of his treasuries:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 - Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:1 - As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 - A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - and I will make it a waste -- it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16 - When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 - Ask of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain; Jehovah will make lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
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