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# יוֹרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3138

**early rain** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

early rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹרֶה: early rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] early rain, which falls in Palestine from the last of October until the first of December, opp. מַלְקוֹשׁ: Dt 11:14 Je 5:24 Ho 6:3 (where MT makes יו׳ Pt., or Hiph. Impf., but v. We); cf. also i. מוֹרֶה. Vid. further RobBR i, 429 f. ChaplinPEF 1883, 8 ff. KleinZPV iv, 72 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: autumn rain (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.11.14/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֧י מְטַֽר־אַרְצְכֶ֛ם בְּעִתּ֖וֹ יוֹרֶ֣ה וּמַלְק֑וֹשׁ וְאָסַפְתָּ֣ דְגָנֶ֔ךָ וְתִֽירֹשְׁךָ֖ וְיִצְהָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.give the.rain your.land your at its.appropriate time autumn.rain and spring.rain and you.will.gather grain your and your.new wine and your.fresh oil

*JPS 1917:* that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

[Jeremiah 5:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.24/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־אָמְר֣וּ בִלְבָבָ֗ם נִ֤ירָא נָא֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הַנֹּתֵ֗ן גֶּ֛שֶׁם יוֹרֶ֥ה וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ בְּעִתּ֑וֹ שְׁבֻע֛וֹת חֻקּ֥וֹת קָצִ֖יר יִשְׁמָר־לָֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and not they.said in heart their let.us.fear please (et) Yahweh God our \[who\] gives rain autumn.rain and spring.rain at its.appropriate time \[the\].weeks of.\[the\].appointments of.harvest he.keeps for us

*JPS 1917:* Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3138.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3138/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).