Malqosh מַלְקוֹשׁ

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Malqosh (Hebrew מַלְקוֹשׁ, Strong's H4456) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “spring rain”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) latter rain, spring rain
1a) the March and April rains which mature the crops of Palestine

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	rain (6), latter (2)
BSB	spring (2), spring rains (2), like spring showers (1), like the spring showers (1)

Every verse with Malqosh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy 11:14
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

Job 29:23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 5:24
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

Hosea 6:3
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Joel 2:23
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).