Lexical 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). |