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# אֶלְגָּבִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H417

**hail** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/417/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְגָּבִישׁ: hail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/417/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hail (= Ar. أَلْجِبْسُ gypsum; cf. sub גבשׁ) אַבְנֵי א׳ Ez 13:11, 13; 38:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of hail (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 13:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.11/#tree)

אֱמֹ֛ר אֶל־טָחֵ֥י תָפֵ֖ל וְיִפֹּ֑ל הָיָ֣ה ׀ גֶּ֣שֶׁם שׁוֹטֵ֗ף וְאַתֵּ֜נָה אַבְנֵ֤י אֶלְגָּבִישׁ֙ תִּפֹּ֔לְנָה וְר֥וּחַ סְעָר֖וֹת תְּבַקֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* say to \[those.who.are\].plastering of.whitewash and it.will.fall it.will.come rain overflowing and you O.stones of.hail you.will.fall and a.wind of.tempests it.will.break.through.\[the.wall\]

*JPS 1917:* say unto them that daub it with whited plaster, that it shall fall; there shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall break forth,

[Ezekiel 13:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.13/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וּבִקַּעְתִּ֥י רֽוּחַ־סְעָר֖וֹת בַּֽחֲמָתִ֑י וְגֶ֤שֶׁם שֹׁטֵף֙ בְּאַפִּ֣י יִֽהְיֶ֔ה וְאַבְנֵ֥י אֶלְגָּבִ֖ישׁ בְּחֵמָ֥ה לְכָלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh and I.will.make.break.out a.wind of.tempests in rage my and rain overflowing in anger my it.will.come and stones of.hail in rage for complete.destruction

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: I will even cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in Mine anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/417.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/417/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).