# מָטַר (matar)

Israeli respelling: ma-tar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4306. 36 Old Testament occurrences.

rain

King James renderings: rain.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/matar-h4306

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 9:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/9/33) — And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was…
- [Exodus 9:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/9/34) — And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servan…
- [Deuteronomy 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/11) — But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
- [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…
- [Deuteronomy 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/17) — And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;…
- [Deuteronomy 28:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/12) — The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thin…
- [Deuteronomy 28:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/24) — The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- [Deuteronomy 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/2) — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the…
- [1 Samuel 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/17) — Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wicke…
- [1 Samuel 12:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/18) — So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
- [2 Samuel 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/21) — Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the migh…
- [2 Samuel 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/4) — And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the e…
- [1 Kings 8:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/35) — When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,…
- [1 Kings 8:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/36) — Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they sho…
- [1 Kings 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/1) — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there…
- [1 Kings 18:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/1) — And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I…
- [2 Chronicles 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/26) — When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess th…
- [2 Chronicles 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/27) — Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein…
- [2 Chronicles 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/13) — If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- [Job 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/10) — Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- [Job 28:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/26) — When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
- [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.
- [Job 36:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/27) — For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
- [Job 37:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/6) — For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
- [Job 38:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/28) — Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- [Psalms 72:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/6) — He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
- [Psalms 135:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/135/7) — He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
- [Psalms 147:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/8) — Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
- [Proverbs 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/1) — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
- [Proverbs 28:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/3) — A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
- [Isaiah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/4/6) — And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from…
- [Isaiah 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/6) — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that…
- [Isaiah 30:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/23) — Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat…
- [Jeremiah 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/13) — When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;…
- [Jeremiah 51:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/16) — When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:…
- [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…