Word

χάλαζα

chálaza · G5464 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

hail

Frozen rain

Examples
Revelation 8:7 The first sounded, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
Revelation 16:21 And huge hailstones, weighing about a talent each, came down from heaven upon people; and people blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because the hailstone plague was extremely severe.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

μέγαςgreat, large 2
ὡςas, like 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 2
καταβαίνωto come down, to go down 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πληγήplague, wound, blow 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

בָּרָד bârâd · H1259 · hail: Hebrew בָּרָד and Greek χάλαζα are direct translation equivalents denoting the meteorological phenomenon of hail, with both terms used in parallel passages describing divine judgment through hailstorms (e.g., Exodus plague narratives and their LXX renderings, Revelation echoes).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hail2.13: Revelation 16:21 describes “huge hailstones, weighing about a talent each, came down from heaven upon people”.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χαλάζης, ἡ (χαλάω, which see (so Etym. Magn. 805, 1; but Curtius (sec. 181) says…

χαλάζης, ἡ (χαλάω, which see (so Etym. Magn. 805, 1; but Curtius (sec. 181) says certainly has nothing to do with it)), from Homer down, the Sept. for בָּרָד, hail: Rev 8:7; Rev 11:19; Rev 16:21.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Water4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0