מָטַר
mâṭar · maw-tawr'
rain
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4305 (מָטַר);
rain
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: rain.
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
38 occurrences · 38 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- rain8 · 21%
- the rain4 · 11%
- that there be no rain2 · 5%
- and rain2 · 5%
- and there is no rain2 · 5%
- for the rain2 · 5%
- with rain2 · 5%
- and the rain1 · 3%
- that the rain1 · 3%
- of the rain1 · 3%
- you the rain1 · 3%
- as the rain1 · 3%
- neither let there be rain1 · 3%
- after rain1 · 3%
- nor rain1 · 3%
- for me as for the rain1 · 3%
- likewise to the small1 · 3%
- and to the great1 · 3%
- like rain1 · 3%
- and as rain1 · 3%
- and from rain1 · 3%
- no rain1 · 3%
- of rain1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.