# מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqosh)

Israeli respelling: malqosh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4456. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence

King James renderings: latter rain.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/malqosh-h4456

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/14) — That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and…
- [Job 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/23) — And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- [Proverbs 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/15) — In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
- [Jeremiah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/3) — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ash…
- [Jeremiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/24) — Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he rese…
- [Hosea 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/6/3) — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as…
- [Joel 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/23) — Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to…
- [Zechariah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/1) — Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one g…