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Psalm 72

Psa. 72:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He shall come down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
like rain
matar (Hebrew #4306)
rain
KJV usage: rain.
Pronounce: maw-tawr'
Origin: from 4305
upong the mown
gez (Hebrew #1488)
a fleece (as shorn); also mown grass
KJV usage: fleece, mowing, mown grass.
Pronounce: gaze
Origin: from 1494
grass: as showers
rabiyb (Hebrew #7241)
a rain (as an accumulation of drops)
KJV usage: shower.
Pronounce: raw-beeb'
Origin: from 7231
that water
zarziyph (Hebrew #2222)
a pouring rain
KJV usage: water.
Pronounce: zar-zeef'
Origin: by reduplication from an unused root meaning to flow
the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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2 Sam. 23:4• 4And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth. (2 Sam. 23:4)
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Hos. 6:3• 3and we shall know,--we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth. (Hos. 6:3)

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Earth,
Grass,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Deut. 32:2• 2My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass. (Deut. 32:2)
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2 Sam. 23:4• 4And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth. (2 Sam. 23:4)
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Prov. 16:15• 15In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. (Prov. 16:15)
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Prov. 19:12• 12The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)
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Isa. 5:6• 6and I will make it a waste--it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:6)
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Isa. 14:3‑5• 3And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy trouble and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
 4that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased,--the exactress of gold ceased!
 5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers. (Isa. 14:3‑5)
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Ezek. 34:23‑26• 23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
 24And I Jehovah will be their God, and my servant David a prince in their midst: I Jehovah have spoken it.
 25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell in safety in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
 26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season: there shall be showers of blessing. (Ezek. 34:23‑26)
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Hos. 6:3• 3and we shall know,--we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth. (Hos. 6:3)
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Hos. 14:5‑7• 5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
 6His shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
 7They shall return and sit under his shadow; they shall revive as corn, and blossom as the vine: the renown thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. (Hos. 14:5‑7)
• {v.6-7} Further it will be a kingdom of spiritual and material prosperity. (“Psalms 72” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earthk.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "land," see Ps. 2.8; 58.2.