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Strong's #4305: matar (pronounced maw-tar')

a primitive root; to rain:--(cause to) rain (upon).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâṭar

1) to rain

1a) (Niphal) to be rained on or upon

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to rain, send rain

1b2) to rain hail, send hail

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Genesis 2:5: "the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man"
Genesis 7:4: "seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days"
Genesis 19:24: "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire"
Exodus 9:18: "Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such"
Exodus 9:23: "ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt."
Exodus 16:4: "unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people"
Job 20:23: "God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating."
Job 38:26: " To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;"
Psalms 11:6: "Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest:"
Psalms 78:24: " And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven."
Psalms 78:27: " He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:"
Isaiah 5:6: "and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon"
Ezekiel 38:22: "against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon"
Amos 4:7: "three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain"
Amos 4:7: "upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city:"
Amos 4:7: "another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon"
Amos 4:7: "piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered."









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