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Strong's #4456: malqowsh (pronounced mal-koshe')

from 3953; the spring rain (compare 3954); figuratively, eloquence:--latter rain.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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malqôsh

1) latter rain, spring rain

1a) the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3953



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Deuteronomy 11:14: "of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil."
Job 29:23: "for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain."
Proverbs 16:15: "is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain."
Jeremiah 3:3: "have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst"
Jeremiah 5:24: "that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks"
Hosea 6:3: "as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
Joel 2:23: "and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first"
Zechariah 10:1: "ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds,"









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