אֶלְגָּבִישׁ
elgavish · hailstones
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H417 · appears 3 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
elgavish (אֶלְגָּבִישׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hailstones”.
Large hail, stones of ice.
How to say it
el·ga·vish
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
- Lumps of ice falling from the sky.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 13:11
say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a wind of storms will burst it open.
- Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make burst a wind of storms in my fury, and a torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in fury for total destruction.
- Ezekiel 38:22
And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and torrential rain, and hailstones, fire, and sulfur I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.