Hail
אֶלְגָּבִישׁStrong’s H0417elgavish (el-ga-vish)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Elgavish is the Hebrew word usually translated “hail”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.”
Meaning
- Hail (lit.
How it's translated
- hail 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 13:13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
- Ezekiel 38:22And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Hebrew dictionary
אֶלְגָּבִישׁ elgavish · hail
hail (lit. -pearls of God)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAIL, noun
Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms. These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; some being as hard and solid as perfect ice; others soft, like frozen snow. Hailstones assume various figures; some are round, others angular, others pyramidical, others flat, and sometimes they are stellated with six radii, like crystals of snow.
All definitions and other forms of “hail”
HAIL, verb intransitive
To pour down masses of ice or frozen vapors.
HAIL, verb transitive
To pour.
HAIL, adjective
[Gr. whole.]
Sound; whole; healthy; not impaired by disease; as a hail body; hail corn. [In this sense, it is usually written hale.]
HAIL, noun
A wish of health; a salutation. This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed.
HAIL, verb transitive
[Latin calo. See Call and Heal.]
To call; to call to a person at a distance, to arrest his attention. It is properly used in any case where the person accosted is distant, but is appropriately used by seamen. Hoa or hoi, the ship ahoay, is the usual manner of hailing; to which the answer is holloa, or hollo. Then follow the usual questions, whence came ye? where are you bound? etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.