Study it in the app“There was hail, and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, such as had never been like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.”
There wasוַיְהִיhail,בָרָדand fireוְאֵשׁflashingמִתְלַקַּחַתin the midstבְּתוֹךְof the hail,הַבָּרָדveryמְאֹדheavy,כָּבֵדsuch asאֲשֶׁרhad neverלֹאbeenהָיָהlike itכָמֹהוּin allבְּכָלthe landאֶרֶץof Egyptמִצְרַיִםsinceמֵאָזit becameהָיְתָהa nation.לְגוֹי
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appearshail
Hail.
Where else “varad” appearsfire
Fire that burns or cooks.
Where else “esh” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “mitlakachat” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appearsvery
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appearssevere
Hard and severe, difficult to bear: a terrible famine.
Where else “kaved” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsnation
A people with their land; also Israel.
Where else “goy” appearsEgypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
23Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and YHWH sent thunder and hail, and fire went down to the earth; and YHWH rained hail on the land of Egypt.
24 · This verse (above)
25The hail struck, throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, from people to animals; and the hail struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.
