matar · rain

What it means

matar (מָטַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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. The water that falls from the sky and makes the fields grow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rain ×37
• rains ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×6
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×7
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 9:33

  So Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread out his palms to YHWH; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.

• Exodus 9:34

  But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and made his heart insensitive, he and his servants.

• Deuteronomy 11:11

  But the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it is a land of mountains and plains; it drinks water from the rain of the heavens,

• Deuteronomy 11:14

  that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

• Deuteronomy 11:17

  and the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, and the ground does not yield its produce, and you perish quickly from the good land that YHWH is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 28:12

  YHWH will open to you his good storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

• Deuteronomy 28:24

  YHWH will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from the heavens it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

• Deuteronomy 32:2

  Let my teaching drip like the rain, let my saying distill like the dew, like showers on the vegetation and like downpours on the grass.

• 1 Samuel 12:17

  Is it not the harvest of wheat today? I will call to YHWH, and he will give thunder and rain; and know and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of YHWH, by asking for yourselves a king.”

• 1 Samuel 12:18

  Samuel called to YHWH, and YHWH gave thunder and rain on that day, and all the people greatly feared YHWH and Samuel.

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  is like the light of morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, springs vegetation from the earth.’

• 1 Kings 8:35

  When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and give thanks to your name and turn back from their sin because you afflict them,

• 1 Kings 8:36

  then you listen in the heavens, and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel, for you instruct them in the good way in which they should walk; and give rain on your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance.

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, of the residents of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

• 1 Kings 18:1

  And it happened, after many days, that the word of YHWH came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will give rain on the face of the ground.”

• 2 Chronicles 6:26

  When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and give thanks to your name and turn from their sin because you afflict them,

• 2 Chronicles 6:27

  then you listen in the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel, for you instruct them in the good way in which they should walk; and give rain on your land that you gave to your people as an inheritance.

• 2 Chronicles 7:13

  If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,

• Job 5:10

  who gives rain on the face of the earth and sends water on the face of the open fields,

• Job 28:26

  when he made a statute for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunders;

• Job 29:23

  They waited for me as for the rain, and opened their mouth as for the late rain.

• Job 36:27

  For he draws off drops of water; they distill rain for his mist,

• Job 37:6

  For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the downpour of rain, and to the downpour of his mighty rains.

• Job 38:28

  Does the rain have a father? Or who has fathered the drops of dew?

• Psalms 72:6

  May he come down like rain on the mown field, like downpours that water the earth.

• Psalms 135:7

  He who brings up clouds from the end of the earth; lightnings for the rain he made; who brings out the wind from his storehouses;

• Psalms 147:8

  who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes sprout grass on the mountains,

• Proverbs 26:1

  Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a senseless man.

• Proverbs 28:3

  A poor man who oppresses the poor is a rain that sweeps away, and there is no bread.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• 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.

• Isaiah 30:23

  And he will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; your herds will graze on that day in a broad pasture.

• Jeremiah 10:13

  When he gives his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he makes rise the clouds from the end of the earth; lightning for the rain he makes, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.

• Jeremiah 51:16

  When he gives his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he makes rise the clouds from the end of the earth; lightning for the rain he makes, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.

• Zechariah 10:1

  Ask of YHWH rain in the time of the late rain; YHWH makes the lightning flashes, and rain in downpours he will give them, to each grass in the field.

And 2 more times.