noun · feminine
chalazas
Strong’sG5464
hail
stem chalaz-4 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χάλαζα, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for בָּרָד;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5464 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhal'-ad-zah
hail
Fromprobably from G5465;
King Jameshail.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hail NT+8th c.BC+hailstones, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, any pelting shower, ὀμβρία χ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II any small knot like a hailstone,
II.1 pimple or tubercle in the flesh of swine, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 small cyst, such as grows on the eyelid, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 a knot or hard lump; in an egg, Refs 4th c.BC+crystals, Refs. (Cf. Sloven. žled, Little Russian oželeda 'sleet, ice'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chalazas3×χάλαζα | chalazais |
| object accusative | chalazan | chalazain |
| direct address vocative | chalazar | chalazair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chalazau1×χαλάζης | chalazaiu |
| to, for dative | chalaza | chalazai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chalaza is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
chalazas“hail”subjectnominative singular3×
Revelation 8:7Kai tos prōtos salpizata; kai geneta chalazas kai purem migorēnteim en haime, kai …… first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were …
Revelation 11:19“hail”… fōnais kai brontais kai seismos kai chalazas megas.… of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
Revelation 16:21kai chalazas megas hōs talantiaias katabainatō ek tou …And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each …
chalazau“hail”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 16:21… ton theon ek tau plēgau tau chalazau, hoti megas atō tas plēgas autau …… cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.