Strong's Concordance
Original word: מַלְקוֹשׁ
Transliteration: malqosh
Definition (short): rain
Definition (full): the spring rain, eloquence
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from the same as leqesh
Definition: latter rain, spring rain
NASB Translation: late (1), latter rain (1), rain* (1), spring rain (6).
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References
KJV:
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 thy wine, and thine oil.
NASB:
that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.
KJV:
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
NASB:
"They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.
KJV:
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
NASB:
In the light of a king's face is life, And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain.
KJV:
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
NASB:
"Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.
KJV:
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 reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
NASB:
'They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn rain and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest."