מָטַר
mâṭar · H4306 · Hebrew · 38 occurrences
Meanings
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rain
Water coming down from the sky, which is indispensable for sustaining human life, but can be both refreshing and destructive
ExamplesExodus 9:33 So Moses left the city from his meeting with Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD; and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain no longer poured on the earth.
Exodus 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had stopped, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Deuteronomy 11:11 “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
7 occurrences in 5 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 3
- גֶּשֶׁםrain 1
- זֶרַעoffspring, seed 1
- עֹזstrength, might 1
- שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָחַףto damage 1
What it doesIt is the subject
7 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 5
- חָדַלto cease, to stop 1
- נָתַךְto pour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
15 occurrences in 5 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 11
- זָקַקto refine 1
- כּוּןto establish, to prepare 1
- מָטַרto send rain 1
- שָׁאַלto ask, to inquire, to request 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyou 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֶּבֶרman 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
12 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 11
- כlike/as 7
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֶּשֶׁםrain 2
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 3 words
- גֶּשֶׁם geshem · H1653 · rain
- Both words are Hebrew nouns meaning 'rain' with near-identical sense and comparable frequency of use, and could substitute for one another in many contexts.
- רָבִיב râbîyb · H7241 · shower
- The target term means 'rain', and רְבִיבִים (רָבִיב (râbîyb, H7241)) means 'shower'; both denote precipitation, with 'shower' typically indicating a more specific, lighter or briefer instance of rain. They describe overlapping natural phenomena that could substitute for one another in many contexts.
- מוֹרֶה môwreh · H4175 · early rain, autumn rain, teacher
- The target term ('rain') is the general term for precipitation, while מֹורֶה (môwreh, H4175) means '(early) rain', a temporally qualified variant. Both denote precipitation, מֹורֶה being the more specific seasonal type and the target term the broader term.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὑετός hyetós · G5205 · rain, rain water, to rain
- Greek ὑετός renders Hebrew מָטַר as the standard translation equivalent for 'rain,' with both terms denoting precipitation from the sky in both literal and metaphorical contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rain001002005011
- מָטַר is the ordinary noun for rain, the meteorological phenomenon itself, as in the flood's forty days and nights of rain (Genesis 7:12) and the covenant blessing of rain in its season (Leviticus 26:4).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4306. matar מָטָר noun masculineExo 9:33. rain (Assyrian me‰ru, DlHWB 406; Arabic ;…
מָטָר noun masculineExo 9:33. rain (Assyrian me‰ru, DlHWB 406; Arabic ; Sabean (Minaean) מטר HomChrestom. 127; Aramaic מַטְרָא, ); — ׳מ Exo 9:33 Exo 9:30t.; construct מְטַר Deu 11:11 Deu 11:5t.; plural construct מִטְרוֺת Job 37:6; — rain, as watering earth, especially Canaan, Deu 11:11 ׳מ הַשָּׁמַיִם; as blessing sent (verb usually נָתַן and withheld by ׳י Deu 11:14 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ יוֺרֶה,); Deu 11:17 (here ׳מְ אַרְצְכֶס); Deu 28:12; 1Ki 8:35-36, 1Ki 17:1 (|| טַל), 1Ki 18:12; 1Ch 6:26; 1Ch 6:27; 1Ch 7:13; Job 5:10 (|| מַיִם), compare Job 28:26; Job 36:27; Psa 147:8 (verb מֵכִין); so ׳מְ זַרְעֲךָ Isa 30:23; Zec 10:1 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Zec 10:1 מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם; מָטָר גֶּשֶׁם Job 37:6, עֻזּוֺ מִטְרוֺת גֶּשֶׁם Job 37:6 (|| שֶׁלַג); Job 38:28 (|| אֶגְלֵיטָֿ֑ל) לַמּ ׳בְּרָקִים Psa 135:7; Jer 10:13 = Jer 51:16 (|| מַיִם הֲמוֺן); also in מְ אֵת ׳נָתַן וְעָפָר אָבָק אַרְצְךָ Deu 28:24; compare Isa 5:6 (where accusative of congnate meaning with verb הִמְטִיר); wish of David 2Sa 1:21 (|| טַל); ׳מ בַּקָּצִיר simile of the unseasonable, Pro 26:1 (|| בַּקַּיִץ שֶׁלֶג); sent by extraordary supernatural power as sign Exo 9:33-34, (J; both || קֹלוֺת בָּרָר,) compare 1Sa 12:17-18, (|| קֹלוֺת); simile of refreshment Deu 32:2 (|| טַל), Job 29:23 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Psa 72:6 (|| רְבִיבִים), compare 2Sa 23:4; as destructive Psa 28:3 סֹחֵף מָטָר); also figurative, Isa 4:6 (|| זֶרֶם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
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