To hail
בָּרַדStrong’s H1258barad (ba-rad)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Barad is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will hail”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to hail
How it's translated
- and it will hail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בָּרַד barad · to hail
(Qal) to hail
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.