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Strong's #3138: yowreh (pronounced yo-reh')

active participle of 3384; sprinkling; hence, a sprinkling (or autumnal showers):--first rain, former (rain).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yôreh

1) early rain, autumn shower

1a) rain which falls in Palestine from late October until early December

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: active participle of H3384



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Deuteronomy 11:14: "you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine,"
Jeremiah 5:24: "our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed"
Hosea 6:3: "and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."









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