יוֹרֶה
early rain
‘early rain’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3138 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, יורה (yôwreh) means “early rain.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to Deuteronomy (50%), then Jeremiah. First canonically at Deuteronomy 11:14, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3138 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 50%
- Jeremiah 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Both the former 1×, First rain 1×
- American Standard Version: Both the former 1×, Former rain 1×, Latter rain 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Autumn and spring rains 1×, Both autumn 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Both the early rain 1×, Former rain 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3138 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3138 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3138 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3138 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- early rain, autumn shower
- rain which falls in Palestine from late October until early December
Word origin
n.[m.] early rain, which falls in Palestine from the last of October until the first of December, opp. מַלְקוֹשׁ: Dt 11:14 Je 5:24 Ho 6:3 (where MT makes יו׳ Pt., or Hiph. Impf., but v. We); cf. also i. מוֹרֶה. Vid. further RobBR i, 429 f. ChaplinPEF 1883, 8 ff. KleinZPV iv, 72 f.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ירה (yârâh) (H3384) — to throw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יוֹרֶה I
- a soaking rain, early rain. Sifré Deut. 42 (ref. to Deut. XI, 14) י׳ במרחשון וכ׳ yoreh (early rain) is the rain of Marḥeshvan, the late rain (malkosh) in Nisan; Taan. 5ᵃ. Ib. (ref. to Mish. ib. I, 2) י׳ בניסן וכ׳ is the yoreh in Nisan? is it not in Marḥeshvan? Ib. 6ᵃ; a. e.—Trnsf. early season, spring. Tanḥ. Ḥayé 6 (ref. to Koh. XI, 6) אם זרעת בי׳ וכ׳ if thou hast sown in the spring &c.; cmp. בַּכִּיר.— e.g. Deuteronomy 11:14
יוֹרֶה II
- (denom. of אוּר, cmp. Syr. אירא P. Sm. 167) boiler, kettle. Ḥull. 108ᵃ י׳ של חלב a kettle of milk. Ib. 108ᵇ י׳ רותחת a boiling kettle. Ab. Zar. 76ᵃ י׳ קטנה בתוך י׳ גדולה put a small boiler into a large one filled with water, v. גָּעַל; a. fr.—Esp. the dyer’s kettle, dye. B. Kam. 99ᵃ top הקדיחו י׳ (Ms. H. הקדיחתו) the dye burnt it (the wool); ib. IX, 4 (100ᵇ) הקדיחתו י׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 30); Y. ib. IX, 6ᵈ bot. הקדיחה י׳.—Ḥag. 15ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) כל עמר דנחית לי׳ סליק does the wool that goes into the kettle always come out sound?, i.e. does every student of mystic philosophy escape death or scepticism?—Sabb. I, 6; a. e.—Pl. יוֹרוֹת; י׳ הערביים improvised fire places of the Arabs, a cavity in the ground laid out with clay. Kel. V, 10 (ed. Dehr. יוֹרַת). Men. V, 9 (63ᵃ).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3138 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ו/ירה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 5:24 | 1 |
| יוֹרֶ֣ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 11:14 | 1 |
| יוֹרֶ֥ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 5:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3138, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יורה Yôwrâh H3139 Jorah
- יורי Yôwray H3140 Jorai
- ירואל Yᵉrûwʼêl H3385 Jeruel
- יריאל Yᵉrîyʼêl H3400 Jeriel
- יריה Yᵉrîyâh H3404 Jerijah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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