* the ninth month.
   That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most
   rainy time of the year in Palestine.  Dr. Russel, in his
   account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles
   that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of
   the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty
   days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th
   of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near
   the truth:  and that the air during this time is excessively
   piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold
   climate.

  7:8,9  Es 2:16 
 * trembling.
  1Sa 12:17,18  Jer 10:10,13 
 * great rain.  Heb. showers.