מָטַר
mâṭar
Meaning
“rain”
BDB rain
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36
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(38×)
12 books · uncommon
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First appears: Exodus 9:33
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מָטַר
8 books
Exodus 9:33
וּ/מָטָ֖ר
Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
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Deuteronomy 11:11
לִ/מְטַ֥ר
but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,
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1 Samuel 12:17
וּ/מָטָ֑ר
Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.
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2 Samuel 1:21
מָטָ֛ר
You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
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1 Kings 8:35
מָטָ֖ר
When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
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2 Chronicles 6:26
מָטָ֖ר
When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them:
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Isaiah 4:6
וּ/מִ/מָּטָֽר
There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
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Jeremiah 10:13
לַ/מָּטָר֙
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
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