מָטַר
mâṭar · maw-tar'
to rain
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to rain
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (cause to) rain (upon).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to surround and contain › the head, the highest
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to surround and contain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָטַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- rained2 · 12%
- caused it to rain1 · 6%
- and i will cause it to rain1 · 6%
- i will cause it to rain1 · 6%
- behold, i will rain1 · 6%
- upon him, and shall rain1 · 6%
- to cause it to rain1 · 6%
- he shall rain1 · 6%
- and had rained down1 · 6%
- he rained1 · 6%
- that they rain1 · 6%
- and i will rain1 · 6%
- and i caused it to rain1 · 6%
- and caused it not to rain1 · 6%
- was rained1 · 6%
- whereupon it rained1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.