STRONGS NUMBER H4456


Word Summary
malqosh: latter rain, spring rain
Original Word: מַלְקוֹשׁ
Transliteration: malqosh
Phonetic Spelling: (mal-koshe')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: latter rain, spring rain
Meaning: the spring rain, eloquence
Strong's Concordance
latter rain

From laqash; the spring rain (compare leqesh); figuratively, eloquence -- latter rain.

see HEBREW laqash

see HEBREW leqesh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4456. malqosh

מַלְקוֺשׁnoun masculineJeremiah 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); ׳מHosea 6:3 7t.; — related to גֶּשֶׁם‎ as particular to General, opposed to יוֺרֶה‎ (former rain, q. v.): 6:3; Jeremiah 5:24; so opposed to מוֺרֶהJoel 2:23; particular under מָטָרDeuteronomy 11:14 (opposed to יוֺרֶה‎), Zechariah 10:1 (+ מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם‎), Job 29:23; "" רְבִבִיםJeremiah 3:3; מ ׳עָבProverbs 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (simile of king's favour).