Words

מָטַר H4305

Home gloss

rain (v.)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

cause to rain

Note

Hiphil "make rain": water (7:4), fire and sulfur (19:24), bread (Exod 16:4). The nouns מָטָר and גֶּשֶׁם are to be fixed as a set where they meet (7:12)

Rulings

20, 44

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 2

• 2:5 now no shrub of the field was yet in the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Elohim had not made it rain on the land, and human there was none to serve the ground;

Genesis 7

• 7:4 For in seven days still, I am making rain on the land forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe every standing thing that I made from on the face of the ground."