Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4456
מַלְקוֹשׁ
malqoshmal-koshe'
spring rain
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: malqôwsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4456is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4456
the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence
The King James renders it: latter 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
malqosh is rendered "spring rain". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 11:14then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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 11:14וּמַלְק֑וֹשׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and spring rain4
- spring rain2
- for spring rain1
- like spring rain1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַלְכוּת | malkuth | royalty | Uses91 |
| מַלְכוּ | malku | kingdom | Uses57 |
| מַלְכָּה | malkah | Queen (of Sheba) | Uses35 |
| מַלְקוֹחַ | malqoach | prey | Uses8 |
| מַלְבּוּשׁ | malbush | garment | Uses8 |
| מַלְבֵּן | malben | brick | Uses3 |
| מַלְאַךְ | malak | angel | Uses2 |
| מַלְכָּא | malka | queen | Uses2 |
| מַלְמָד | malmad | oxgoad | Uses1 |
| מַלְאֲכוּת | malakuth | message | Uses1 |
| מַלְכֹּדֶת | malkodeth | snare | Uses1 |
| מַלְתָּעָה | maltaah | tooth | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ3
- וּמַלְק֑וֹשׁ1
- כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ1
- לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃1
- מַלְק֔וֹשׁ1
- מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- וּמַלְק֑וֹשׁumalkooshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spring rain
Job
one use
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
- לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃lemalkooshpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for spring rain
Proverbs
one use
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
- מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃malkooshnoun · masculine singulartagged: spring rain
Jeremiah
two uses
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
- וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁumalkooshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spring rain
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁumalkooshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spring rain
Hosea
one use
So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁkemalkooshpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like spring rain
Joel
one use
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
- וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁumalkooshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and spring rain
Zechariah
one use
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.
- מַלְק֔וֹשׁmalkooshnoun · masculine singulartagged: spring rain
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.