מַלְקוֹשׁ
mal.qosh
- spring rain
- latter-rain
- spring-rain
STEPBible TBESH
Glosses: spring rain
1) latter rain, spring rain
1a) the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine
BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Glosses: latter-rain; spring-rain
Root √לקשׁ: לקשׁ לקשׁ לְקִישָׁא be late make do late be late late Syriac Syriac Arabic Arabic (√ of foll.; NH(Hiph. and deriv.); Aram. or. ; vulg. Ar.(Hauran), Wetzst in De Job 24, 6, so II. Wahrm;, Dozy Suppl. ii. 543).
מַלְקוֹשׁ n.m latter-rain spring-rain . (i.e. showers of March-April; important as strengthening and maturing crops)