Word

מָטַר

mâṭar · H4305 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

to send rain

Causative action by which a deity causes water to come down from the sky

Examples
Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 7:4 “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
Job 38:26 To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a person in it,
Literally: to send rain; hence: causative action by which deities cause objects to fall from the sky like rain (to rain (things))

Examples
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,
Exodus 9:18 “Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Exodus 9:23 So Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

17 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 5
יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 3
Not stated: I 3
הִנֵּהbehold 2
Not stated (infinitive) 2
חֶלְקָהportion 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

9 occurrences in 10 groups

Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

15 occurrences in 13 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 4
עַלon, upon, over, against+ הֶםthem 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13

With adverbsAdverbs

4 occurrences in 2 groups

לֹאnot 3
מָחָרtomorrow 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

גָּשַׁם gâsham · H1652 · to bring rain: Both words are verbs meaning '(cause to) rain', in a very narrow area of meaning; they are two distinct words with overlapping sense that could substitute for one another in context.

In the other Testament 1 word

βρέχω bréchō · G1026 · rain, to rain, to send rain: Greek βρέχω (to moisten, especially by shower) is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew מָטַר (to rain upon), capturing the same core meteorological action of precipitation falling from sky to ground.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Rain001002005011: מָטַר describes the causing of rain to fall, as in God's judgment raining "brimstone and fire" on Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24) and His provision of manna, described as raining bread from heaven (Exodus 16:4).
Move002002001012: The verb also carries the sense of something descending or moving downward from above, the physical motion underlying the raining action itself.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָטַרmâṭar · H4305מָטַר mâṭar · H4306 · rain · 38×מַטְרִי Maṭrîy · H4309 · Matrite · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4305. matar [מָטַר] verb denominative (compare GerberVerb. denom.106) [rain] (Arabic ;…

H4305. matar
[מָטַר] verb denominative (compare GerberVerb. denom.106) [rain] (Arabic ; Syriac ᵑ7 Aph`el אַמְטַר); —
Niph`al Imperfect be rained upon תִּמָּטֵר אַחַתּ חֶלְקָה Amo 4:7.
Hiph`il Pf . הִמְטִיר Gen 2:5; Gen 19:24; וְהִמְטַרְתִּ֫י Amo 4:7; Imperfect יַמְטֵר Psa 11:6; Job 20:23; וַיַּמְטֵר Exo 9:3 Exo 9:2t.; 3 feminine singular תַּמְטִיר Amo 4:7 (but read ᵑ9 ᵐ5 אַמְטִיר1singular אַמְטִיר Amo 4:7 + vAmos 4:7 (for תַּמְטִיר), Eze 38:22; Infinitive construct הַמְטִיר Isa 5:6; Job 38:26; Participle מַמְטִיר Gen 7:4 Gen 7:2t.; — send rain, rain (followed by עַל except Exo 9:18; Exo 16:4); subject ׳י (no direct object) Gen 2:5; Gen 7:4 (both J), Amo 4:7 (3 t. in verse), compare Job 38:26; subject clouds עָבִים by divine command Isa 5:6 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb מָטָר); ׳הִמִ מָן Psa 78:24; שְׁאֵר Psa 78:27; לֶחֶם Exo 16:4 (J; מִןהַֿשָּׁמַים no עַל); as act of judgment ׳הִמ בָּרָד rain hail, send hail, subject ׳י Exo 9:23 (J); compare Exo 9:18 (J; no עַל); object וָאֵשׁ גָּפְרִית Gen 19:24 (J), compare Eze 38:22 אַמ וְגָפְרִית אֵשׁ אֶלְגָּבִישׁ וְאַבְנֵי שׁוֺטֵף ׳וְגֶשֶׁם; figurative Psa 11:6 (object מַּחִים; but read אֵשׁ מַּחֲמֵי see Ew Che Bae and others); Job 20:23 (|| clause אַמּוֺ חֲרוֺן בּוֺ יְשַׁלַּח).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Rain8 occurrences Move9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0