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Hebrew verb · H4305

מָטַר

matarmaw-tar'

to rain

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mâṭar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4305is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4305

to rain

The King James renders it: (cause to) rain (upon).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

matar is rendered "to rain". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Amos, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:5Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:5הִמְטִ֜יר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he rained down3
  • about to rain down2
  • about to bring rain1
  • and he will send rain1
  • and I sent rain1
  • from raining1
  • he caused to rain1
  • he had caused rain1
  • he will rain down1
  • I sent rain1
  • I will rain down1
  • it sent rain1

and 2 more, 17 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

מָטַרmatarrainUses38

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וַיַּמְטֵ֬ר2
  • אַמְטִ֤יר1
  • אַמְטִ֑יר1
  • הִמְטִ֜יר1
  • הִמְטִ֧יר1
  • וְהִמְטַרְתִּי֙1
  • וְיַמְטֵ֥ר1
  • וַיַּמְטֵ֧ר1
  • יַמְטֵ֥ר1
  • לְ֭הַמְטִיר1
  • מֵהַמְטִ֥יר1
  • מַמְטִ֣יר1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhw3ms3Hc/Vhw3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular3HVhrmsa
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhi1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vhj3ms
  • Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhj3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNi3fs

Genesis

three uses
  • Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

    Genesis 2:5

    • הִמְטִ֜ירhimtirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had caused rain
  • For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

    Genesis 7:4

    • מַמְטִ֣ירmamtirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to bring rain
  • Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

    Genesis 19:24

    • הִמְטִ֧ירhimtirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he caused to rain

Exodus

three uses
  • Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

    Exodus 9:18

    • מַמְטִיר֙mamtirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to rain down
  • So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 9:23

    • וַיַּמְטֵ֧רvaiyamterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he rained down
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.

    Exodus 16:4

    • מַמְטִ֥ירmamtirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to rain down

Job

two uses
  • When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

    Job 20:23

    • וְיַמְטֵ֥רveyamterconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he will send rain
  • to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

    Job 38:26

    • לְ֭הַמְטִירlehamtirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to send rain

Psalms

three uses
  • On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

    Psalms 11:6

    • יַמְטֵ֥רyamterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will rain down
  • He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

    Psalms 78:24

    • וַיַּמְטֵ֬רvaiyamterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he rained down
  • He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

    Psalms 78:27

    • וַיַּמְטֵ֬רvaiyamterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he rained down

Isaiah

one use
  • I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

    Isaiah 5:6

    • מֵהַמְטִ֥ירmehamtirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from raining

Ezekiel

one use
  • I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

    Ezekiel 38:22

    • אַמְטִ֤ירʾamtirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will rain down

Amos

four uses
  • “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

    Amos 4:7

    • וְהִמְטַרְתִּי֙vehimtartiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I sent rain
    • אַמְטִ֑ירʾamtirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I sent rain
    • תִּמָּטֵ֔רtimaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was rained on
    • תַמְטִ֥ירtamtirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it sent rain

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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