מָטַרmâṭar
rain
Pronunciation: maw-tar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4305
Meanings
Niph`al: be rained upon (Amos 4:7)
Hiph`il: send rain, rain (Genesis 2:5; Genesis 19:24; Amos 4:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
- Genesis 7:4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
- Genesis 19:24 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Exodus 9:18 So tomorrow at this time I will send a hailstorm more devastating than any in all the history of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:23 So Moses lifted his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed toward the earth. The Lord sent a tremendous hailstorm against all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).