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 have given the rain of your land in its season—sprinkling and gathered—and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,Job 29:23 · לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.Proverbs 16:15 · מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃In the light of a king’s face is life, And his good-will is as a cloud of the latter rain.Jeremiah 3:3 · וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁAnd withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.Jeremiah 5:24 · וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁAnd they have not said in their heart, ‘Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.’Hosea 6:3 · כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁAnd we know—we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain—sprinkling earth.’Zechariah 10:1 · מַלְק֔וֹשׁThey asked of Jehovah rain in a time of latter rain, Jehovah is making lightnings, And rain in showers He doth give to them. To each—the herb in the field.