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title: בָּרָד — hail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּרָד (1259), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 29 times: hail. BDB 1906: n.m. hail. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּרָד

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«בָּרָד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hail** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 29 times · **Key:** 1259 · **BDB:** בָּרָד

### Glosses

hail (24); of.hail (3); the.hail (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1259/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. hail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1259/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 9:18 hail (Arabic بَرَدٌ, Aramaic בְּרַד, ܒܰܪܕܳܐ; also Sab. ברדם, cold DHMZMG 1875, 607)—בָּרָד Ex 9:18 + 28 times;—hail, c. המטיר י׳ Ex 9:18, 23, c. נתן י׳ 9:23; also Ex 9:19, 22, 24, 25, 25, 26; 10:5, 12, 15; ‖ קֹלֹת thunder Ex 9:23, 28, 29, 33, ‖ קֹלֹת \& מָטָר Ex 9:34, ‖ אשׁ lightning 9:24; all JE, Egyptian plague; cf. ψ 78:47, 48; 105:32; another great hailstorm Jos 10:11 (E), where אַבְנֵי הַבּ׳; further, in theoph ψ 18:13 (‖ גחלי־אשׁ) 2 S 22:13 om. by error; del. however in ψ 18:14 cf. De Che etc.; אוצרות ב׳ Jb 38:22, אשׁ וב׳ שׁלג וקיטור ψ 148:8, ירקון וב׳ Hg 2:17; in sim. Is 28:2 זרם ב׳ שׁער; fig. Is 28:17; 30:30 (אבן ב׳)—fig. of judgment of י׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 26 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּרָד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1259/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/)

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הֲ֭בָאתָ אֶל־אֹצְר֣וֹת שָׁ֑לֶג וְאֹצְר֖וֹת בָּרָ֣ד תִּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* have you.gone? into \[the\].storehouses of.snow and.\[the\] storehouses of.hail have.you.seen?

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

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[Psalms 105:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.32/)

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נָתַ֣ן גִּשְׁמֵיהֶ֣ם בָּרָ֑ד אֵ֖שׁ לֶהָב֣וֹת בְּאַרְצָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.made rains their hail a.fire of.flames \[was\].in land their

*JPS 1917:* He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

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