Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4306
מָטַר
matarmaw-tawr'
rain
38 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 H4306is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4306
rain
The King James renders it: rain.
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 "rain". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:33Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.
The first use
Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
Exodus 9:33וּמָטָ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- rain15
- for the rain5
- and rain4
- rain of4
- like the rain2
- and from rain1
- and like the rain1
- and rain of1
- from rain1
- like rain1
- rains of1
- the rain1
and 1 more, 38 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָטַר | matar | to rain | Uses17 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 38, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
27 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
- מָטָ֖ר3
- מָטָר֙3
- וּמָטָ֖ר2
- וּמָטָ֑ר2
- לַמָּטָ֣ר2
- לַמָּטָר֙2
- מָטָ֑ר2
- מָטָ֔ר2
- מְטַֽר־2
- הַמָּטָ֧ר1
- וְכַמָּטָ֥ר1
- וּמְטַר־1
and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular15HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular7HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
two uses
Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
- וּמָטָ֖רumatarconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and rain
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.
- הַמָּטָ֧רhamatarthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the rain
Deuteronomy
six uses
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
- לִמְטַ֥רlimtarpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to rain of
then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
- מְטַֽר־metar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rain of
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- מָטָ֔רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- מְטַֽר־metar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rain of
The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
- מְטַ֥רmetarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rain of
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- כַּמָּטָר֙kamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the rain
1 Samuel
two uses
Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
- וּמָטָ֑רumatarconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and rain
So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
- וּמָטָ֖רumatarconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and rain
2 Samuel
two uses
O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- מָטָ֛רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- מִמָּטָ֖רmimatarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from rain
1 Kings
four uses
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- מָטָ֖רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- מָטָר֙matarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- וּמָטָ֑רumatarconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and rain
After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
- מָטָ֖רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
2 Chronicles
three uses
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- מָטָ֖רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- מָטָר֙matarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
- מָטָ֔רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
Job
seven uses
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- מָ֭טָרmatornoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
- לַמָּטָ֣רlamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the rain
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
- כַמָּטָ֣רkhamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the rain
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
- מָטָ֣רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
- מָטָ֑רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
- מִטְר֥וֹתmitrotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rains of
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
- לַמָּטָ֥רlamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the rain
Psalms
three uses
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
- כְּמָטָ֣רkematarpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like rain
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- לַמָּטָ֣רlamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the rain
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- מָטָ֑רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
Proverbs
two uses
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
- וְכַמָּטָ֥רvekhamatarconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the rain
A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
- מָטָ֥רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
Isaiah
three uses
a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
- וּמִמָּטָֽר׃ פumimatarconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from rain
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.”
- מָטָֽר׃matarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- מְטַ֨רmetarnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rain of
Jeremiah
two uses
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- לַמָּטָר֙lamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the rain
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- לַמָּטָר֙lamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the rain
Zechariah
two uses
Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
- מָטָר֙matarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
- וּמְטַר־umetar-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rain of
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
