Hail
בָּרָדStrong’s H1259barad (ba-rad)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Barad is the Hebrew word usually translated “hail”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.”
Meaning
- Hailof God's judgment (fig.)
How it's translated
- hail 12
- the hail 8
- and hail 3
- and the hail 3
- with hail 1
- to hail 1
- and with hail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 14
- Psalms 6
- Isaiah 3
- Joshua 1
- Job 1
- Haggai 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:19Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
- Exodus 9:22And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:23And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 9:24So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
- Exodus 9:25And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
- Exodus 9:26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרָד barad · hail
1) hail 1a) of God's judgment (fig.)
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.