בָּרָד
bârâd · baw-rawd'
hail
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1258 (בָּרַד);
hail
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hail(stones).
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in
The house, what is within of the head, the highest of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּרָד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hail4 · 14%
- and hail4 · 14%
- and the hail4 · 14%
- the hail1 · 3%
- that there may be hail1 · 3%
- so there was hail1 · 3%
- with the hail1 · 3%
- were, was there no hail1 · 3%
- neither shall there be any more hail1 · 3%
- unto you from the hail1 · 3%
- even all that the hail1 · 3%
- which the hail1 · 3%
- with hailstones1 · 3%
- of the hail1 · 3%
- with hail1 · 3%
- also to the hail1 · 3%
- them hail1 · 3%
- of hail1 · 3%
- and hailstones1 · 3%
- and with hail1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.