# H4456 מַלְקוֹשׁ

מַלְקוֹשׁ (malqôwsh), Strong’s H4456: the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence KJV: latter rain.. Occurs 8 times.

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*malqôwsh* — the spring rain; figuratively, eloquence

KJV: latter rain.

Derived from [לָקַשׁ lâqash](https://besorah.bible/word/H3953) (to gather the after crop)

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַלְקוֹשׁ n.m. latter-rain, spring-rain (i.e. showers of March-April; important as strengthening and maturing crops)

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 11:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=14) — that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your…
- [Jeremiah 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=3) — Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead…
- [Jeremiah 5:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=24) — They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its…
- [Hosea 6:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/6?v=3) — Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will…
- [Joel 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/2?v=23) — “Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just…
- [Zechariah 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/10?v=1) — Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the…
- [Proverbs 16:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/16?v=15) — In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
- [Job 29:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/29?v=23) — They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.