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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 27
    spellings

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.

The other 27 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

  • 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.

מָטַרmatarto rainUses17

Other numbers on this spelling

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

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.

    Exodus 9:33

    • 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.

    Exodus 9:34

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:11

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:14

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 11:17

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:12

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 28:24

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 32:2

    • 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.”

    1 Samuel 12:17

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 12:18

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 1:21

    • 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.’

    2 Samuel 23:4

    • 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,

    1 Kings 8:35

    • 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.

    1 Kings 8:36

    • 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!”

    1 Kings 17:1

    • 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.”

    1 Kings 18:1

    • 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,

    2 Chronicles 6:26

    • 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.

    2 Chronicles 6:27

    • 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,

    2 Chronicles 7:13

    • מָטָ֔רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain

Job

seven uses
  • He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

    Job 5:10

    • מָ֭טָרmatornoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
  • when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

    Job 28:26

    • 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.

    Job 29:23

    • כַמָּטָ֣רkhamatarpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the rain
  • For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

    Job 36:27

    • מָטָ֣רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
  • For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

    Job 37:6

    • 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?

    Job 38:28

    • 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.

    Psalms 72:6

    • 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.

    Psalms 135:7

    • 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.

    Psalms 147:8

    • מָטָ֑רmatarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain

Proverbs

two uses
  • Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor does not befit a fool.

    Proverbs 26:1

    • 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.

    Proverbs 28:3

    • 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.

    Isaiah 4:6

    • 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.”

    Isaiah 5:6

    • 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.

    Isaiah 30:23

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 10:13

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 51:16

    • 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.

    Zechariah 10:1

    • מָטָר֙matarnoun · masculine singulartagged: rain
    • וּמְטַר־umetar-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rain of

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 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.

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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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