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# hail

«hail» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **hail, greeting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

hail, greeting

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

small balls of ice that fall from storms; in the fairy tale, a greeting meaning welcome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hail/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today 'hail' as a greeting is old; we say hello or greetings. The ice sense is still used.

### examples

- Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. (Torah EXO.9.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hail/#x1)
- "Hail, fair maiden!" says the hunter. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hail/#x2)
- Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.' (Torah EXO.9.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hail/#x3)

### primary record

hail

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 107 (Torah 17, tales 90, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 4.0 (Torah alone 13.2); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.261/)
- [And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.679/)
- [He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1374/)
- [He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1375/)
- [He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1893/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.