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Lexicon :: Strong's H4306 - māṭār

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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 Box Exo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his [fn]hands to the LORD; and the [fn]thunder and the hail ceased, and rain H4306 [fn]no longer poured on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain H4306 and the hail and the [fn]thunder had ceased, he sinned again and [fn]hardened his heart, he and his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - “But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain H4306 of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - that [fn]He will give the rain H4306 for your land in its season, the [fn]early and [fn]late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - “Or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain H4306 and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain H4306 to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:24 - “The LORD will make the rain H4306 of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - “Let my teaching drop as the rain, H4306
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17 - “Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, that He may send [fn]thunder and rain. H4306 Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the LORD by asking for yourselves a king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:18 - So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent [fn]thunder and rain H4306 that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - “O mountains of Gilboa,
Let not dew or rain H4306 be on you, nor fields of offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the tender grass springs out of the earth,
Through sunshine after rain.’ H4306

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, H4306 because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain H4306 on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of [fn]the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain H4306 these years, except by my word.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain H4306 on the face of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain H4306 because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain H4306 on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - “If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, H4306 or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - “He gives rain H4306 on the earth
And sends water on the fields,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:26 - When He set a limit for the rain H4306
And a course for the thunderbolt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - “They waited for me as for the rain, H4306
And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27 - “For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain H4306 from [fn]the [fn]mist,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:6 - “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
And to the [fn]downpour H4306 and the rain, H4306 ‘Be strong.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - “Has the rain H4306 a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:6 - [fn]May he come down like rain H4306 upon the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7 - [fn]He causes the [fn]vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightnings for the rain, H4306
Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 - Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain H4306 for the earth,
Who makes grass to [fn]grow on the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:1 - Like snow in summer and like rain H4306 in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:3 - A poor man who oppresses the lowly
Is like a driving rain H4306 [fn]which leaves no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:6 - There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and [fn]protection from the storm and the rain. H4306

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - “I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain H4306 on it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - Then He will give you rain H4306 for [fn]the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be [fn]rich and [fn]plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain, H4306
And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16 - When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain H4306
And brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:1 - Ask rain H4306 from the LORD at the time of the spring rain—
The LORD who makes the [fn]storm clouds;
And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.
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