King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3138
Transliteration: yoreh
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-reh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the early rain
Meaning: sprinkling, a sprinkling
Word Summary
yoreh: the early rain
Original Word: יוֹרֶהTransliteration: yoreh
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-reh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: the early rain
Meaning: sprinkling, a sprinkling
Strong's Concordance
first rain, former rain Active participle of yarah; sprinkling; hence, a sprinkling (or autumnal showers) -- first rain, former (rain).
see HEBREW yarah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3138. yoreh
יוֺרֶה noun [masculine] early rain, which falls in Palestine from the last of October until the first of December, opposed to מַלְקוֺשׁ: Deuteronomy 11:14; Jeremiah 5:24; Hosea 6:3 (where ᵑ0 makes ׳יו Participle, or Hiph`il Imperfect, but see We); compare also I. מוֺרֶה. See further RobBr i, 429 f. ChaplinPEF 1883, 8 ff. KleinZPV iv, 72 f.