Exodus 9 · Verse 24

Exodus 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.
Exodus 9:24, King James Version

Exodus 9:24 in other translations

BSBThe 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.
WEBSo 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.
ASVSo 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.
YLTand 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.
DARBYAnd 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.
BBESo 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.
WebsterSo 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.

What does Exodus 9:24 mean?

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, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 9:22-35

Woful havoc this hail made: it killed both men and cattle; the corn above ground was destroyed, and that only preserved which as yet was not come up. The land of Goshen was preserved. God causes rain or hail on one city and not on another, either in mercy or in judgment. Pharaoh humbled himself to Moses. No man could have spoken better: he owns himself wrong; he owns that the Lord is righteous; and God must be…

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Exodus 9:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיְהִ֣יvay.Hiand it wasH1961
בָרָ֔דva.RadhailH1259
וְאֵ֕שׁve.'Eshand fireH784
מִתְלַקַּ֖חַתmit.la.Ka.chat[was] flashingH3947
בְּת֣וֹךְbe.Tokhin [the] middle ofH8432
הַבָּרָ֑דha.ba.Radthe hailH1259
כָּבֵ֣דka.VedheavyH3515
מְאֹ֔דme.'OdveryH3966
אֲ֠שֶׁר'a.SherwhichH834
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
הָיָ֤הha.Yahit had beenH1961
כָמֹ֙הוּ֙kha.Mo.hulike itH3644
בְּכָל\־be.kholin allH3605
אֶ֣רֶץ'E.retz[the] land ofH776
מִצְרַ֔יִםmitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714
מֵאָ֖זme.'Azfrom thenH227
הָיְתָ֥הha.ye.Tahit had becomeH1961
לְגֽוֹי\׃le.Goy<into> a nationH1471

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 9:24

  • Exodus 9:23

    And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

  • Matthew 24:21

    For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

  • Exodus 10:6

    And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
none like.
23; 10:6; Mt 24:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 9:23

    And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 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.

  • Exodus 9:25

    And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

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Exodus 9:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Hubo pues granizo, y fuego mezclado con el granizo, tan grande, cual nunca hubo en toda la tierra de Egipto desde que fué habitada.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il y eut de la grêle, et du feu entremêlé au milieu de la grêle, qui était très grosse, telle qu’il n’y en a pas eu dans tout le pays d’Égypte depuis qu’il est devenu une nation.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es kam Hagel, und Feuer, mitten im Hagel sich ineinander schlingend, sehr schwer, desgleichen im ganzen Lande Ägypten nicht gewesen war, seitdem es eine Nation geworden ist.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et grando et ignis mista pariter ferebantur: tantæque fuit magnitudinis, quanta ante numquam apparuit in universa terra Ægypti ex quo gens illa condita est.