1) latter rain, spring rain 1a) the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine
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H4456 — מַלְקוֹשׁ
mal.qosh · spring rain · Hebrew/Aramaic
7 tagged verse occurrences
Deuteronomy 11:14 · וּמַלְק֑וֹשׁthat I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.Job 29:23 · לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.Proverbs 16:15 · מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.Jeremiah 3:3 · וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁTherefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.Jeremiah 5:24 · וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁNeither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’Hosea 6:3 · כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁLet us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”Zechariah 10:1 · מַלְק֔וֹשׁAsk of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.