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Lexicon :: Strong's H4456 - malqôš

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מַלְקוֹשׁ
Transliteration
malqôš
Pronunciation
mal-koshe'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1127b

Strong’s Definitions

מַלְקוֹשׁ malqôwsh, mal-koshe'; from H3953; (compare H3954) the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence:—latter rain.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H4456 in the following manner: latter rain (6x), latter (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H4456 in the following manner: latter rain (6x), latter (2x).

  1. latter rain, spring rain

    1. the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַלְקוֹשׁ malqôwsh, mal-koshe'; from H3953; (compare H3954) the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence:—latter rain.
STRONGS H4456: Abbreviations
† מַלְקוֺשׁ noun masculineJeremiah 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); מ׳ Hosea 6:3 + 7 times; — related to גֶּשֶׁם as particular to general, opposed to יוֺרֶה (former rain, q. v.): Hosea 6:3; Jeremiah 5:24; so opposed to מוֺרֶה Joel 2:23; particular under מָטָר Deuteronomy 11:14 (opposed to יוֺרֶה), Zechariah 10:1 (+ מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם), Job 29:23; || רְבִבִים Jeremiah 3:3; עָב מ׳ Proverbs 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (simile of king's favour).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

11:14

Job

29:23

Proverbs

16:15

Jeremiah

3:3; 3:3; 5:24

Hosea

6:3; 6:3

Joel

2:23

Zechariah

10:1

H4456

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4456 matches the Hebrew מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqôš),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - that [fn]I, Yahweh, will give the rain for your land in its season, the [fn]early and [fn]late H4456 rains H4456, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 -

“They waited for me as for the rain,

And opened their mouth as for the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:15 -

In the light of a king’s face is life,

And his favor is like a cloud with the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:3 -

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,

And the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456 has not [fn]come.

Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;

You refused to feel dishonor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 -

‘They do not say in their heart,

“Let us now fear Yahweh our God,

Who gives rain in its season,

Both the [fn]early rain and the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456,

Who keeps for us

The appointed weeks of the harvest.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:3 -

“So let us know, let us pursue to know Yahweh.

His going forth is established as the dawn;

And He will come to us like the rain,

Like the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456 watering the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:23 -

So rejoice, O sons of Zion,

And be glad in Yahweh your God,

For He has given you [fn]the early rain in righteousness.

And He has poured down for you the rain,

The [fn]early and [fn]late H4456 rains H4456 [fn]as before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 -

Ask rain from Yahweh at the time of the [fn]late H4456 rain H4456—

Yahweh who makes the [fn]storm clouds;

And He will give them showers of rain, the plant in the field to each man.

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