H4305 - מָטַר (mâṭar)

H4305 מָטַר (mâṭar) maw-tar'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to rain

KJV Usage: (cause to) rain (upon)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מָטַר (ma.tar) — to rain. 1) to rain 1a) (Niphal) to be rained on or upon 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to rain, send rain 1b2) to rain hail, send hail

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מטר (H4305)

verb · מָטָר

Rain | verb hif, verb nif

to send rain = causative action by which a deity causes water to come down from the sky

GEN 2:5 · GEN 7:4 · JOB 38:26 · ISA 5:6 · AMO 4:7 · AMO 4:7 · AMO 4:7 · AMO 4:7

Move | verb hif

to rain (things) literally: to send rain; hence: = causative action by which deities cause objects to fall from the sky ◄ like rain

GEN 19:24 · EXO 9:18 · EXO 9:23 · EXO 16:4 · JOB 20:23 · PSA 11:6 · PSA 78:24 · PSA 78:27 · EZK 38:22

¹ JOB 20:23 NJPS "to rain down ... weapons" NJB "hurling ... a rain of arrows" | RSV NRSV ESV "to rain it (= anger)" | NIV "to rain down ...blows" REB "rains ... cruel blows"

Reinier de Blois

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מָטַר] vb. denom. [rain] Niph. be rained upon

Hiph. send rain, rain

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