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# בָּרָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1259

**hail** — used 29 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/1489/1259/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרָד: n.m. hail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1259/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 9:18 hail (Arabic بَرَدٌ, Aramaic בְּרַד, ܒܰܪܕܳܐ; also Sab. ברדם, cold DHMZMG 1875, 607)—בָּרָד Ex 9:18 + 28 times;—hail, c. המטיר י׳ Ex 9:18, 23, c. נתן י׳ 9:23; also Ex 9:19, 22, 24, 25, 25, 26; 10:5, 12, 15; ‖ קֹלֹת thunder Ex 9:23, 28, 29, 33, ‖ קֹלֹת & מָטָר Ex 9:34, ‖ אשׁ lightning 9:24; all JE, Egyptian plague; cf. ψ 78:47, 48; 105:32; another great hailstorm Jos 10:11 (E), where אַבְנֵי הַבּ׳; further, in theoph ψ 18:13 (‖ גחלי־אשׁ) 2 S 22:13 om. by error; del. however in ψ 18:14 cf. De Che etc.; אוצרות ב׳ Jb 38:22, אשׁ וב׳ שׁלג וקיטור ψ 148:8, ירקון וב׳ Hg 2:17; in sim. Is 28:2 זרם ב׳ שׁער; fig. Is 28:17; 30:30 (אבן ב׳)—fig. of judgment of י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 26 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hail (24); of hail (3); the hail (2).

## In the verses

[Job 38:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/#tree)

הֲ֭בָאתָ אֶל־אֹצְר֣וֹת שָׁ֑לֶג וְאֹצְר֖וֹת בָּרָ֣ד תִּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* have you.gone? into \[the\].storehouses of.snow and.\[the\] storehouses of.hail have.you.seen?

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

[Psalms 105:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.32/#tree)

נָתַ֣ן גִּשְׁמֵיהֶ֣ם בָּרָ֑ד אֵ֖שׁ לֶהָב֣וֹת בְּאַרְצָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.made rains their hail a.fire of.flames \[was\].in land their

*JPS 1917:* He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1259.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1259/): 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).