barad · hail

What it means

barad (בָּרָד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hail”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Balls of ice that fall from the sky in a storm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hail ×28
• hailstones ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×17
• Joshua×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×3
• Haggai×1

• Exodus 9:18

  Look, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

• Exodus 9:19

  So now, send, bring to safety your livestock and all that you have in the field; every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, the hail will come down on them, and they will die.”’”

• Exodus 9:22

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 9:23

  Moses 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.

• Exodus 9:24

  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.

• Exodus 9:25

  The 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.

• Exodus 9:26

  Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.

• Exodus 9:28

  Pray to YHWH, for there has been enough of thunder of Elohim and hail; and I will let you go, and you will not have to stay any longer.”

• Exodus 9:29

  Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my palms to YHWH; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to YHWH.

• Exodus 9:33

  So Moses went out from Pharaoh, out of the city, and spread out his palms to YHWH; and the thunder and the hail ceased, and rain no longer poured on the earth.

• Exodus 9:34

  But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and made his heart insensitive, he and his servants.

• Exodus 10:5

  They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.

• Exodus 10:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, all that the hail has left.”

• Exodus 10:15

  They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

• Joshua 10:11

  And it came about, as they fled before Israel, while they were on the descent of Beth-horon, that YHWH threw down on them great stones from the heavens as far as Azekah, and they died. More were those who died by the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

• Job 38:22

  Have you entered into the treasuries of the snow, or the treasuries of the hail have you seen,

• Psalms 18:12

  From the brightness before him his clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

• Psalms 18:13

  YHWH thundered in the heavens, and Elyon gave his voice, hail and coals of fire.

• Psalms 78:47

  He killed with hail their vine, and their sycamores with frost.

• Psalms 78:48

  And he gave over to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the flames.

• Psalms 105:32

  He gave hail for their rain, flaming fire in their land.

• Psalms 148:8

  fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind doing his word,

• Isaiah 28:2

  Look, Adonai has one strong and mighty, like a downpour of hail, a destroying storm, like a downpour of mighty waters that sweep away; he casts it down to the earth with the hand.

• Isaiah 28:17

  And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will carry away the refuge of lies, and the hiding place, waters will sweep it away.

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.

• Haggai 2:17

  I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and you did not turn to me, declares YHWH.

And 3 more times.