Word

בָּרָד

bârâd · H1259 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences

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Meanings

hail

Pellets of frozen rain falling from the sky; associated with destruction

Examples
Exodus 9:18 “Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Exodus 9:19 “So now, send word, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”
Exodus 9:22 Now the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on every person and animal, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

How it’s used In 5 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

הָיָהto be, to become 2
כָּבֵדheavy 2

What it doesIt is the subject

13 occurrences in 7 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 5
חָדַלto cease, to stop 2
נָכָהto strike, to strike down 2
יָעָהto sweep away 1
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
יָתַרto remain 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 2 groups

מָטַרto send rain 2
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 3
מִןfrom 2
לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

אֶבֶןstone 2
אוֹצָרtreasure, storehouse, treasury 1
זֶרֶםrainstorm 1
תָּוֶךְmiddle 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.

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In the other Testament 1 word

χάλαζα chálaza · G5464 · hail: Greek χάλαζα renders Hebrew בָּרָד directly as the natural translation equivalent for hail/hailstones across contexts, representing the same meteorological phenomenon.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Rain001002005011: בָּרָד denotes hailstones, as in Exodus 9:18's warning "I will send a very heavy hail" (בָּרָד), naming the destructive precipitation sent as one of the plagues on Egypt.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּרַד bârad · H1258 · to rain hail · 1×בָּרָדbârâd · H1259בָּרֹד bârôd · H1261 · mottled, speckled, dappled · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1259. barad בָּרָד noun masculineExo 9:18 hail (Arabic , Aramaic בְּרַד, ; also Sabean…

H1259. barad
בָּרָד noun masculineExo 9:18 hail (Arabic , Aramaic בְּרַד, ; also Sabean ברדם, cold DHMZMG 1875, 607) — בָּרָד Exo 9:18 Exo 9:28t.; — hail, with י ׳המטיר Exo 9:18, Exo 9:23, with י ׳נתן Exo 9:23; also Exo 9:19, Exo 9:22, Exo 9:24, Exo 9:25 (twice in verse); Exo 9:26; Exo 10:5, Exo 10:12, Exo 10:15; || קֹלֹת thunder Exo 9:23, Exo 9:28, Exo 9:29, Exo 9:33, || קֹלֹת & מָטָר Exo 9:34, || אשׁ lightning Exo 9:24; all J E, Egyptian plague; compare Psa 78:47; Psa 78:48; Psa 105:32; another great hailstorm Jos 10:11 (E), where הַבּ ׳אַבְנֵי; further, in theophany Psa 18:13 (|| גחליאֿשׁ) 2Sa 22:13 omits by error; strike out however in Psa 18:14 compare De Che etc.; ב ׳אוצרות Job 38:22, וב ׳אשׁ וקיטור שׁלג Psa 148:8, וב ׳ירקון Hag 2:17; in simile Isa 28:2 ב ׳זרם שׁער; figurative Isa 28:17; Isa 30:30 (ב ׳אבן) — figurative of judgment of ׳י.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Rain29 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