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Lexicon :: Strong's H4306 - māṭār

Aa
מָטָר
Transliteration
māṭār
Pronunciation
maw-tawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1187a

Strong’s Definitions

מָטַר mâṭar, maw-tawr'; from H4305; rain:—rain.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H4306 in the following manner: rain (36x), great (1x), small (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H4306 in the following manner: rain (36x), great (1x), small (1x).

  1. rain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָטַר mâṭar, maw-tawr'; from H4305; rain:—rain.
STRONGS H4306: Abbreviations
† מָטָר noun masculineExodus 9:33. rain (Assyrian meṭru, DlHWB 406; Arabic bdb056403; Sabean (Minaean) מטר HomChrestom. 127; Aramaic מַטְרָא, bdb056404); — מ׳ Exodus 9:33 + 30 times; construct מְטַר Deuteronomy 11:11 + 5 times; plural construct מִטְרוֺת Job 37:6; — rain, as watering earth, especially Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:11 הַשָּׁמַיִם מ׳; as blessing sent (verb usually נָתַן and withheld by י׳ Deuteronomy 11:14 (|| יוֺרֶה, מַלְקוֺשׁ); Deuteronomy 11:17 (here אַרְצְכֶס מְ׳); Deuteronomy 28:12; 1 Kings 8:35, 36; 1 Kings 17:1 (|| טַל), 1 Kings 18:12; 1 Chronicles 6:26; 1 Chronicles 6:27; 1 Chronicles 7:13; Job 5:10 (|| מַיִם), compare Job 28:26; Job 36:27; Psalm 147:8 (verb מֵכִין); so זַרְעֲךָ מְ׳ Isaiah 30:23; Zechariah 10:1 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Zechariah 10:1 מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם; גֶּשֶׁם מָטָר Job 37:6, גֶּשֶׁם מִטְרוֺת עֻזּוֺ Job 37:6 (|| שֶׁלַג); Job 38:28 (|| אֶגְלֵיטָֿ֑ל) בְּרָקִים לַמּ׳ Psalm 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13 = Jeremiah 51:16 (|| הֲמוֺן מַיִם); also in אַרְצְךָ אָבָק וְעָפָר נָתַן אֵת מְ׳ Deuteronomy 28:24; compare Isaiah 5:6 (where accusative of congnate meaning with verb הִמְטִיר); wish of David 2 Samuel 1:21 (|| טַל); בַּקָּצִיר מ׳ simile of the unseasonable, Proverbs 26:1 (|| שֶׁלֶג בַּקַּיִץ); sent by extraordary supernatural power as sign Exodus 9:33, 34 (J; both || בָּרָר, קֹלוֺת) compare 1 Samuel 12:17, 18 (|| קֹלוֺת); simile of refreshment Deuteronomy 32:2 (|| טַל), Job 29:23 (|| מַלְקוֺשׁ), Psalm 72:6 (|| רְבִיבִים), compare 2 Samuel 23:4; as destructive Psalm 28:3 מָטָר סֹחֵף); also figurative, Isaiah 4:6 (|| זֶרֶם).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

9:33; 9:33; 9:33; 9:34

Deuteronomy

11:11; 11:11; 11:14; 11:17; 28:12; 28:24; 32:2

1 Samuel

12:17; 12:18

2 Samuel

1:21; 23:4

1 Kings

8:35; 8:36; 17:1; 18:12

1 Chronicles

6:26; 6:27; 7:13

Job

5:10; 28:26; 29:23; 36:27; 37:6; 37:6; 37:6; 38:28

Psalms

28:3; 72:6; 135:7; 147:8

Proverbs

26:1

Isaiah

4:6; 5:6; 30:23

Jeremiah

10:13; 51:16

Zechariah

10:1; 10:1

H4306

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4306 matches the Hebrew מָטָר (māṭār),
which occurs 38 times in 36 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17 - Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:18 - So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:26 - When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27 - For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:6 - For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:6 - May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7 - He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 - By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:1 - Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 - A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16 - At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 - Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
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