malqôš (מַלְקוֹשׁ) — Hebrew word meaning “latter-rain”

מַלְקוֹשׁ

malqôš

latter-rain

Strong's H4456NounHebrewTWOT 1127b

מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqôš) is a Hebrew noun meaning latter-rain. It appears 8 times in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4456).

Also rendered

spring rain

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1127b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1127b)latter-rain, spring-rain; spring rain, eloquence; latter rain

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מַלְקוֹשׁ noun, masculine: latter-rain, spring-rain

latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important as strengthening and maturing crops)

Strong's H4456 מַלְקוֹשׁ: the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence
KJV:latter rain.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1127: לקשׁ lqš — be late, make, do late

See it in Scripture

Deuteronomy 11:14 Job 29:23 Proverbs 16:15

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