Word

מַלְקוֹשׁ

malqôwsh · H4456 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

latter rain, spring rain

Rain that falls during the first half of April, before the harvest; provides the moisture that is crucial for the grains to mature; regarded as a blessing from YHWH

Examples
Deuteronomy 11:14 that He will provide rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, so that you may gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
Job 29:23 “They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouths as for the late rain.
Proverbs 16:15 In the light of a king’s face is life, And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

גֶּשֶׁםrain 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 2
כlike/as 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עָבcloud 1
עֵתtime, moment, period 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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In the other Testament 1 word

ὄψιμος ópsimos · G3797 · late rain, spring rain: Greek ὄψιμος renders Hebrew מַלְקוֹשׁ in LXX contexts referring to the spring/latter rain season in Palestine's agricultural calendar.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Rain001002005011: מַלְקוֹשׁ denotes the latter or spring rain, the seasonal rainfall that comes toward the end of the agricultural year and is essential for the harvest.

Word family 3 words

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

לָקַשׁ lâqash · H3953 · to gather, to glean · 1×מַלְקוֹשׁmalqôwsh · H4456לֶקֶשׁ leqesh · H3954 · late sowing · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4456. malqosh מַלְקוֺשׁ noun masculineJer 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of…

H4456. malqosh
מַלְקוֺשׁ noun masculineJer 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); ׳מ Hos 6:3 Hos 6:7t.; — related to גֶּשֶׁם as particular to General, opposed to יוֺרֶה (former rain, q. v.): Hos 6:3; Jer 5:24; so opposed to מוֺרֶה Joe 2:23; particular under מָטָר Deu 11:14 (opposed to יוֺרֶה), Zec 10:1 (+ מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם), Job 29:23; || רְבִבִים Jer 3:3; מ ׳עָב Pro 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (simile of king's favour).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Rain8 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