matar · rain

What it means

matar (מָטַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rain”.

Send rain, make it rain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To send water from the sky, or send down fire or manna.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rain ×12
• rained ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×4

• Genesis 2:5

  Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;

• Genesis 7:4

  For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”

• Genesis 19:24

  Then YHWH rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from YHWH out of the heavens.

• Exodus 9:18

  Look, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

• Exodus 9:23

  Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and YHWH sent thunder and hail, and fire went down to the earth; and YHWH rained hail on the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 16:4

  YHWH said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.

• Job 20:23

  When he is about to fill his belly, he will send against him the burning of his anger, and rain it on him upon his flesh.

• Job 38:26

  to bring rain on a land without man, a wilderness in which there is no human being,

• Psalms 11:6

  He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and sulfur; and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

• Psalms 78:24

  and rained down upon them manna to eat, and the grain of the heavens he gave them.

• Psalms 78:27

  and rained down upon them meat like dust, and like the sand of the seas, winged birds,

• Isaiah 5:6

  And I will make it a waste; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will come up; and the clouds I will command not to rain rain on it.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and torrential rain, and hailstones, fire, and sulfur I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.

• Amos 4:7

  And I also withheld from you the rain when there were still three months to the harvest; and I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain; one field would be rained on, and the field on which it did not rain would dry up.

And 3 more times.