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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1259

בָּרָד

baradbaw-rawd'

hail

29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bârâd

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1259is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1259

hail

The King James renders it: hail(stones).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

barad is rendered "hail". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:18Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

Exodus 9:18בָּרָ֖ד

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Exodus.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • hail12
  • the hail8
  • and hail3
  • and the hail3
  • and with the hail1
  • to the hail1
  • with the hail1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בָּרַחbarachto fleeUses63
בָּרָאbarato createUses55
בָּרָקbaraqto use lightningUses21
בָּרַרbararto purifyUses18
בָּרbargrainUses14
בָּרִיאbarifatUses13
בָּרָהbarahto eatUses6
בָּרֹדbarodspottedUses4
בָּרִיחַbariachfleeingUses4
בָּרֶקֶתbareqethgemUses3
בָּרַדbaradto hailUses1
בָּרַקbaraqto flashUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בָּרָ֖ד3
  • הַבָּרָ֔ד3
  • בָּ֝רָ֗ד2
  • בָּרָֽד׃2
  • הַבָּרָ֑ד2
  • בַּבָּרָ֣ד1
  • בָרָ֖ד1
  • בָרָ֔ד1
  • בָרָד֙1
  • בָּרָ֑ד1
  • בָּרָ֣ד1
  • הַבָּרָ֖ד1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa

Exodus

seventeen uses
  • Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

    Exodus 9:18

    • בָּרָ֖דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”

    Exodus 9:19

    • הַבָּרָ֖דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

    Exodus 9:22

    • בָרָ֖דvaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 9:23

    • וּבָרָ֔דuvaradconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hail
    • בָּרָ֖דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

    Exodus 9:24

    • בָרָ֔דvaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
    • הַבָּרָ֑דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
  • Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

    Exodus 9:25

    • הַבָּרָ֜דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
    • הַבָּרָ֔דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
  • The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.

    Exodus 9:26

    • בָּרָֽד׃baradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

    Exodus 9:28

    • וּבָרָ֑דuvaradconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hail
  • Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

    Exodus 9:29

    • וְהַבָּרָד֙vehabaradconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the hail
  • Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

    Exodus 9:33

    • וְהַבָּרָ֔דvehabaradconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the hail
  • When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

    Exodus 9:34

    • וְהַבָּרָ֛דvehabaradconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the hail
  • They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

    Exodus 10:5

    • הַבָּרָ֔דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”

    Exodus 10:12

    • הַבָּרָֽד׃habaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail
  • They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 10:15

    • הַבָּרָ֑דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail

Joshua

one use
  • As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

    Joshua 10:11

    • הַבָּרָ֔דhabaradthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the hail

Job

one use
  • Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

    Job 38:22

    • בָּרָ֣דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail

Psalms

six uses
  • From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

    Psalms 18:12

    • בָּ֝רָ֗דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.

    Psalms 18:13

    • בָּ֝רָ֗דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

    Psalms 78:47

    • בַּבָּרָ֣דbabaradpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the hail
  • He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

    Psalms 78:48

    • לַבָּרָ֣דlabaradpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the hail
  • He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.

    Psalms 105:32

    • בָּרָ֑דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

    Psalms 148:8

    • וּ֭בָרָדuvarodconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and hail

Isaiah

three uses
  • Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

    Isaiah 28:2

    • בָּרָ֖דbaradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

    Isaiah 28:17

    • בָרָד֙varadnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail
  • And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

    Isaiah 30:30

    • בָּרָֽד׃baradnoun · masculine singulartagged: hail

Haggai

one use
  • I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

    Haggai 2:17

    • וּבַבָּרָ֔דuvabaradconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the hail

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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