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מַלְקוֹשׁ

malkosh · late rain

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4456 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

malkosh (מַלְקוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “late rain”.

The spring rain that ripens the grain.

How to say it

mal·kosh

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 spring showers, which ripen the grain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • late rain ×7
  • late ×1

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Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • 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.

  • Job 29:23

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

  • Proverbs 16:15

    In the light of the face of a king is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the late rain.

  • Jeremiah 3:3

    And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

  • Jeremiah 5:24

    And they have not said in their heart, “Let us fear now YHWH our Elohim, who gives rain, the early and the late, in its season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.”

  • Hosea 6:3

    And let us know, let us press on to know YHWH; like the dawn, his going out is sure; and he will come to us like the rain, like the late rain that waters the earth.”

  • Joel 2:23

    And children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in YHWH your Elohim; for he has given you the early rain for righteousness, and has brought down for you the rain, early rain and late rain, as at the first.

  • 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.