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Gematria of Rain

5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “rain” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 94 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
5
Occurrences
94
Distinct values
3

The 5 Hebrew words rendered “rain”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

מָטַרmâṭar×38 in the TanakhH4306

rain

Standard 249 →Gadol 249Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 42Atbash 63Perati 41,681Milui 1,009

First appearance ·Exodus 9:33שמות ט:לגוּמָטָר

See all 19 occurrences of the spelling מטר →

גֶּשֶׁםgeshem×35 in the TanakhH1653

a shower

Standard 343 →Gadol 903Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 37Atbash 212Perati 91,609Milui 523

First appearance ·Genesis 7:12בראשית ז:יבהַגֶּשֶׁם

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מָטַרmâṭar×17 in the TanakhH4305

to rain

Standard 249 →Gadol 249Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 42Atbash 63Perati 41,681Milui 1,009

First appearance ·Genesis 2:5בראשית ב:ההִמְטִיר

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מוֹרֶהmôwreh×3 in the TanakhH4175

an archer; also teacher or teaching; also the early rain

Standard 251 →Gadol 251Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 44Atbash 183Perati 41,661Milui 609

First appearance ·Joel 2:23יואל ב:כגהַמּוֹרֶה

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גָּשַׁםgâsham×1 in the TanakhH1652

to shower violently

Standard 343 →Gadol 903Katan 10Siduri (ordinal) 37Atbash 212Perati 91,609Milui 523

First appearance ·Jeremiah 14:22ירמיהו יד:כבמַגְשִׁמִים

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Quick answers

What is the gematria of rain?

The Tanakh renders “rain” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מטר = 249, גשם = 343 and מורה = 251.

How do you say rain in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “rain”; the most frequent are מטר (mâṭar), 55 times; גשם (geshem), 36 times; מורה (môwreh), 3 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.