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# מַלְקוֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4456

**latter-rain** — used 8 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

latter-rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְקוֹשׁ: n.m. latter-rain, spring-rain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March–April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); מ׳ Ho 6:3 + 7 times;—related to גֶּשֶׁם as particular to general, opp. יוֹרֶה (former rain, q.v.): Ho 6:3 Je 5:24, so opp. מוֹרֶה Jo 2:23; particular under מָטָר Dt 11:14 (opp. יוֹרֶה), Zc 10:1 (+ מְטַר־גֶּשֶׁם), Jb 29:23; ‖ רְבִבִים Je 3:3; עָב מ׳ Pr 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (sim. of king’s favour).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spring rain (6); of spring rain (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.15/#tree)

בְּאוֹר־פְּנֵי־מֶ֥לֶךְ חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝רְצוֹנ֗וֹ כְּעָ֣ב מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].in.\[the\] light of.\[the\].face of.a.king life and favor his \[is\].like a.cloud of.spring.rain

*JPS 1917:* In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

[Job 29:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.23/#tree)

וְיִֽחֲל֣וּ כַמָּטָ֣ר לִ֑י וּ֝פִיהֶ֗ם פָּעֲר֥וּ לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.waited like the rain for me and mouth their they.opened.wide for spring.rain

*JPS 1917:* And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/): 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).