1. hail (weather phenomenon) — Hailstones as a destructive weather phenomenon, used predominantly in the plague narratives of Exodus 9-10, the theophanic judgments of Joshua 10:11, Isaiah 28:2, 17, 32:19, Ezekiel 13:11-13, 38:22, Haggai 2:17, and Psalms 18:13, 78:47-48, 105:32, 148:8. All three clusters denote the identical meteorological substance with purely syntactic variation: articular/conjunctive forms (the hail, and the hail), bare noun (hail, of hail), and instrumental prepositional usage (with hail). Cross-linguistically consistent: Spanish granizo, Arabic بَرَد (barad), Korean 우박 (ubak), Swahili mvua ya mawe, Hindi ओले (ole) all render the same physical phenomenon. 29×
AR["البَرَدِ","الْ-بَرَدُ","الْ-بَرَدِ","الْبَرَدُ","الْبَرَدِ","بَرَدًا","بَرَدٌ","وَالْبَرَدُ","وَبَرَدًا","وَبَرَدٌ"]·ben["এবং-শিলাবৃষ্টি","শিলা","শিলাবৃষ্টি","শিলাবৃষ্টি-রূপে","শিলাবৃষ্টির"]·DE["Hagel","[ברד]","der-Hagel","hail","und-Hagel","und-der-Hagel"]·EN["and-hail","and-the-hail","hail","the-hail"]·FR["dans-grêle","et-grêle","et-le-grêle","grêle","le-grêle","le-hail"]·heb["ברד","ה-ברד","ו-ברד","ו-ה-ברד"]·HI["ओला","ओले","ओले-के","ओलों","ओलों-के","ओलों-ने","और-ओले"]·ID["dan-hujan-es","hujan-es"]·IT["e-grandine","e-il-grandine","grandine","il-grandine","il-hail"]·jav["lan-udan-ès","udan-es","udan-ès","woh-és","wos-ès"]·KO["그-우박의","그-우박이","그리고-그-우박은","그리고-우박을","그리고-우박의","우박","우박-과","우박-으로","우박을","우박이"]·PT["de-granizo","e-granizo","e-o-granizo","granizo","o-granizo"]·RU["град","града","и-град","и-града"]·ES["el-granizo","granizo","y-el-granizo","y-granizo"]·SW["ha-mvua-ya-mawe","kisima","mvua-ya-mawe","na-mvua-ya-mawe"]·TR["dolu","doludan","dolunun","ve-dolu","ve-dolunun"]·urd["اور-اولے","اولوں-نے","اولوں-کے","اولے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בָּרָד 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…