Exodus 9:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 9:24 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And there was hail and fire coming in the middle of the hail; very heavy, such as it had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    So there was haile, and fire mingled with the haile, so grieuous, as there was none throughout all the lande of Egypt, since it was a nation.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the hail and fire mixed with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as hath not been in all the land of Egypt since it hath become a nation.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and there is hail, and fire catching itself in the midst of the hail, very grievous, such as has not been in all the land of Egypt since it has become a nation.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    So there were hail and lightning mixed with hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And there was hail and fire coming in the middle of the hail; very heavy, such as it had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    As the hail fell it was accompanied by lightning flashing back and forth. The hail that fell was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in the whole of Egypt since the beginning of its history.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

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בָרָ֔ד
bârâd
H1259
“hail”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1258

TWOT: 280a

hail - of God's judgment (figuratively)
  1. וַיְהִ֣י hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. וְאֵ֕שׁ ʼêsh H784 “and · fire” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  3. מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת lâqach H3947 “taking” Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. בְּת֣וֹךְ tâvek H8432 “in/at · midst of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. הַבָּרָ֑ד bârâd H1259 “the · hail” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. כָּבֵ֣ד kâbêd H3515 “heavy” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. מְאֹ֔ד mᵉʼôd H3966 “exceedingly” Adverb
  8. אֲ֠שֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  9. לֹֽא lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
  10. הָיָ֤ה hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. כָמֹ֨הוּ֙ kᵉmôw H3644 “like · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. בְּכָל kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  13. אֶ֣רֶץ ʼerets H776 “land of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  14. מִצְרַ֔יִם Mitsrayim H4714 “Egypt” Noun, Proper
  15. מֵאָ֖ז ʼâz H227 “from · then” Preposition + Adverb
  16. הָיְתָ֥ה hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  17. לְגֽוֹי gôwy H1471 “to/for · nation” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

18
words
15
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בָרָ֔ד hail H1259 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 4 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 adverbs
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • וַיְהִ֣י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת Hithpael · Participle Active
  • הָיָ֤ה Qal · Perfect
  • הָיְתָ֥ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וַיְהִ֣י to be H1961 ×3
  • בָרָ֔ד hail H1259 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 29 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 9:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 9:23 Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
  • Exodus 10:6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
  • Matthew 24:21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Exodus 9:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְהִ֣י בָרָ֔ד וְאֵ֕שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת בְּת֣וֹךְ הַבָּרָ֑ד כָּבֵ֣ד מְאֹ֔ד אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹֽא הָיָ֤ה כָמֹ֨הוּ֙ בְּכָל אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם מֵאָ֖ז הָיְתָ֥ה לְגֽוֹי

So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 9:24 Septuagint · lemma form

εἰμί δέ ὁ χάλαζα καί ὁ πῦρ φλογίζω ἐν ὁ χάλαζα ὁ δέ χάλαζα πολύς σφόδρα σφόδρα ὅστις τοιοῦτος οὐ γίγνομαι ἐν αἴγυπτος ἀπό ὅς γίγνομαι ἐπί αὐτός ἔθνος

So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַהֲוָה בַרְדָא וְאֶשָׁתָא מִשְׁתַּלְהָבַת בְּגוֹ בַרְדָא תַּקִיף לַחֲדָא דִי לָא הֲוָה דִכְוָתֵהּ בְּכָל אַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם מֵעִדַן דַהֲוַת לְעָם:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וַהֲוָה בַרְדָא וְאֵישָׁתָא מִתְקַפְּצָא בְּגוֹ בַרְדָא תַּקִיף לַחֲדָא דְלָא הֲוָה דִכְוָותֵיהּ בְּכָל אַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם מִן עִידָן דְהֲוַת לְאוּמָא וּמַלְכוּ

    And there was hail, and fire darting among the hail with exceeding force: unto it had never been the like in all the land of Mizraim ever since it was a nation and a kingdom.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 9:24 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Ver. 24e. So there was hail, and fire mingled.] A strange mixture; a miracle within a miracle, saith Rub. Solomon. Fire and water made a peace betwixt themselves, that they might obey the will of their Creator.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Exo 9:24. Fire mingled with hail — Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. The Hebrew is, fire infolding or catching itself among the hail; “One flash of lightning,” says Ainsworth, “taking hold on another, and so the flames, infolding themselves, increased and burned more terribly.” The same Hebrew word is used Eze 1:4, and rendered, a fire infolding itself.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, since it was inhabited.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 24. Hail, and fire mingled with the hail] It is generally allowed that the electric fluid is essential to the formation of hail. On this occasion it was supplied in a supernatural abundance; for streams of fire seem to have accompanied the descending hail, so that herbs and trees, beasts and men, were all destroyed by them.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) Fire mingled with the hail.—Heb., a fire infolding itself in the midst of the hail. (Comp. Eze_1:4; and see the comment on Exo_9:23.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

24. fire mingled with the hail] lit. ‘fire taking hold of itself in the midst of the hail,’ i.e. forming a continuous stream in it, paraphrased on the marg. by flashing continually amidst. The same expression recurs in Eze_1:4 ‘a great cloud, with a fire taking hold of itself’ (AV., RV. infolding itself; RVm. Or, flashing continually).

very grievous, &c.] as v. 18.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail,.... Which was a miracle within a miracle, as Aben Ezra observes; and very wonderful indeed it was, that the hail did not quench the fire, nor the fire melt the hail, as Philo the Jew (i) remarks:

very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation; See Gill on Exo 9:18.

(i) De Vita. Mosis, l. 1. p. 620.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

In all the land of. So the Hebrew: but the Samaritan and some Hebrew manuscripts have simply in Egypt. (Kennicott) --- Founded, about 627 years before. Hence it appears, that the rain falls in some parts of Egypt, (Menochius) particularly about Tanis, ver. 18, 34. (Calmet) (Wisdom xvi. 17.)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Which strange mixture much increased the miracle. That hail and rain did sometimes, though but seldom, fall in Egypt, is attested by divers eye-witnesses.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Fire mingled with the hail. Rather, "There was hail, and in the midst of the hail a fire infolding itself." The expression used is the same which occurs in Eze_1:4. It seems to mean a fire that was not a mere flash, but collected itself into a mass and was seen for some considerable time.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

"Fire mingled;" lit., collected together, i.e., formed into balls (cf. Eze 1:4). "The lightning took the form of balls of fire, which came down like burning torches."

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

מתלקחת בתוך הברד [AND FIRE] FLASHING UP AMIDST THE HAIL — a miracle within a miracle! Fire and hail mingled, although hail is water! But in order to perform the will of their Creator they made peace one with the other (Exodus Rabbah 12:4).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 18 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bârâd (“hail”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word bârâd carries the sense “hail.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 9:18, which shares the word «hail», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to be” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «וַיְהִ֣י» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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