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title: מַלְקוֹשׁ — latter-rain · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַלְקוֹשׁ (4456), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: latter-rain. BDB 1906: n.m. latter-rain, spring-rain. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַלְקוֹשׁ

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«מַלְקוֹשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **latter-rain** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 4456 · **BDB:** מַלְקוֹשׁ

### Glosses

spring.rain (6); of.spring.rain (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

latter-rain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. latter-rain, spring-rain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March–April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); מ׳ Ho 6:3 + 7 times;—related to גֶּשֶׁם as particular to general, opp. יוֹרֶה (former rain, q.v.): Ho 6:3 Je 5:24, so opp. מוֹרֶה Jo 2:23; particular under מָטָר Dt 11:14 (opp. יוֹרֶה), Zc 10:1 (+ מְטַר־גֶּשֶׁם), Jb 29:23; ‖ רְבִבִים Je 3:3; עָב מ׳ Pr 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (sim. of king’s favour).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַלְקוֹשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4456/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 16:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.15/)

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בְּאוֹר־פְּנֵי־מֶ֥לֶךְ חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝רְצוֹנ֗וֹ כְּעָ֣ב מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].in.\[the\] light of.\[the\].face of.a.king life and favor his \[is\].like a.cloud of.spring.rain

*JPS 1917:* In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

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[Job 29:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.23/)

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וְיִֽחֲל֣וּ כַמָּטָ֣ר לִ֑י וּ֝פִיהֶ֗ם פָּעֲר֥וּ לְמַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.waited like the rain for me and mouth their they.opened.wide for spring.rain

*JPS 1917:* And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

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