King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4456
Transliteration: malqosh
Phonetic Spelling: (mal-koshe')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: latter rain, spring rain
Meaning: the spring rain, eloquence
Word Summary
malqosh: latter rain, spring rain
Original Word: מַלְקוֹשׁTransliteration: 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
מַלְקוֺשׁ noun masculineJeremiah 3:3 latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important, as strengthening and maturing crops); ׳מ Hosea 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 מוֺרֶה Joel 2:23; particular under מָטָר Deuteronomy 11:14 (opposed to יוֺרֶה), Zechariah 10:1 (+ מְטַרגֶּֿשֶׁם), Job 29:23; "" רְבִבִים Jeremiah 3:3; מ ׳עָב Proverbs 16:15 spring-rain-cloud (simile of king's favour).