בָּרַד bârad — to hail

pronounced baw-rad' · Strong's H1258 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as hail.

a primitive root,; to hail.

bârad in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1

וּבָרַ֖ד Isa 32:19 Sequential perfect (weqatal), 3rd person masculine singular

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. (KJV)

What the stems mean

A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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