שֶׁ֫בֶר
breaking
also: fracture, crushing, breach, crash fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 22 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 20 times (45%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (2%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 44 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7667 appears — 41 distinct verses across 12 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 2 verses
Judges 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 4 verses
- Proverbs 15:4 שֶׁ֣בֶר n c ms A gentle tongue is a tree of life, But deceit in it crushes the spirit.
- Proverbs 16:18 שֶׁ֥בֶר n c ms Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 17:19 שָֽׁבֶר n c ms He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
- Proverbs 18:12 שֶׁ֭בֶר n c ms Before destruction the heart of man is proud, But before honor is humility.
Isaiah 9 verses
- Isaiah 1:28 וְ/שֶׁ֧בֶר conj + n c ms But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
- Isaiah 15:5 שֶׁ֖בֶר n c ms My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
- Isaiah 30:13 שִׁבְרָֽ/הּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
- Isaiah 30:14 כְּ/שֵׁ֨בֶר prep + n c ms cs He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Isaiah 30:26 שֶׁ֣בֶר n c ms cs Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
- Isaiah 51:19 וְ/הַ/שֶּׁ֛בֶר conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
- Isaiah 59:7 וָ/שֶׁ֖בֶר conj + n c ms Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Isaiah 60:18 וָ/שֶׁ֖בֶר conj + n c ms Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
- Isaiah 65:14 וּ/מִ/שֵּׁ֥בֶר conj + prep + n c ms cs behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
Jeremiah 14 verses
- Jeremiah 4:6 וְ/שֶׁ֥בֶר conj + n c ms Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
- Jeremiah 4:20 שֶׁ֤בֶר שֶׁ֨בֶר֙ n c ms n c ms Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 6:1 וְ/שֶׁ֥בֶר conj + n c ms Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
- Jeremiah 6:14 שֶׁ֤בֶר n c ms cs They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 8:11 שֶׁ֤בֶר n c ms cs They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 8:21 שֶׁ֥בֶר n c ms cs For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
- Jeremiah 10:19 שִׁבְרִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
- Jeremiah 14:17 שֶׁ֨בֶר n c ms You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
- Jeremiah 30:12 לְ/שִׁבְרֵ֑/ךְ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
- Jeremiah 30:15 שִׁבְרֵ֔/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
- Jeremiah 48:3 וָ/שֶׁ֥בֶר conj + n c ms The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
- Jeremiah 48:5 שֶׁ֖בֶר n c ms For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
- Jeremiah 50:22 וְ/שֶׁ֖בֶר conj + n c ms A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
- Jeremiah 51:54 וְ/שֶׁ֥בֶר conj + n c ms The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Lamentations 5 verses
- Lamentations 2:11 שֶׁ֖בֶר n c ms cs My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:13 שִׁבְרֵ֖/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Lamentations 3:47 וְ/הַ/שָּֽׁבֶר conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
- Lamentations 3:48 שֶׁ֖בֶר n c ms cs My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:10 בְּ/שֶׁ֖בֶר prep + n c ms cs The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“breaking” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שבר (sheber). Translators differ — “destruction” in the King James Version, then “breaking” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 41 verses in 12 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 34% of its uses. Beyond “breaking” it also covers “fracture”, “crushing”, and “breach” — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 41-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7667 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 41
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #819
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 819 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 14 verses 34%
- Isaiah 9 verses 22%
- Lamentations 5 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 41 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 28 verses · 68%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 27%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Destruction 21×, Breach 5×, Hurt 3×
- American Standard Version†: Destruction 18×, Hurt 6×, Breach 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Destruction 15×, Wound 4×, Brokenness 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Breaking 9×, Collapse 5×, A 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7667 across 44† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7667 across 43† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7667 across 44† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7667 across 42† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
שבר I
- 1. breaking of pottery Is 30:14, fracture of member, limb Lv 21:19; 24:20 (H), especially fig. of people personif. שׁ׳ יוֹסֵף Am 6:6, cf. Is 30:26 (‖ מַחַץ מַכָּתוֹ), Je 8:21; 10:19; 14:17; 30:12 (‖ מַכָּה), v 15 (‖ מַכְאֹב), La 2:11; 3:48; 4:10, also (c. רפא, רפה heal) Je 6:14; 8:11 La 2:13 ψ 60:4, cf. Na 3:19; of sinners Is 1:28; shattering, crushing, of wall (in fig.) Is 30:13; שׁ׳ גָּדוֹל (‖ רָעָה) Je 4:6; 6:1, שׁ׳ עַל־שׁ׳ 4:20; שֹׁד וָשׁ׳ Is 59:7; 60:18; Je 48:3, cf. Is 51:19; הַשֵּׁאת וְהַשּׁ׳ La 3:47; זַעֲקַת שׁ׳ Is 15:5, cf. Je 48:5; of individ. Pr 16:18; 17:19; 18:12; fig., שׁ׳ רוּחַ of spirit Is 65:14, cf. Pr 15:4; so (רוּחַ om.) מִשְּׁבָרִים Jb 41:17 from terror, Di De, cf. Bi, but dub.; Buhl Bu conj. מִשְׁבְּרֵי יָם, Gie מִשִּׁנָּיו גִּבֹּרִים, Du מִשְׁמָרִים. e.g. Isaiah 30:14
- 2. crashing, Zp 1:10 (‖ קוֹל צְעָקָה, יְלָלָה), Je 50:22 (‖ מִלְחָמָה), 51:54 (‖ קוֹל זְעָקָה). e.g. Zephaniah 1:10
- 3. breaking of a dream, i.e. its interpretation (solution of mystery) Ju 7:15 (cf. GFM). e.g. Judges 7:15
- 4. הַשְּׁבָרִים Jos 7:5, perhaps (Di Benn Steuern) the quarries, as n.pr.loc., 𝔙 Sabarim (הִשָּֽׁבְרָם).—שִׁבְרִי Ez 32:9, read שִׁבְיְךָ 𝔊 Co Sta Berthol Krae (not Toy). e.g. Joshua 7:5
שבר II m. a Calebite 1 Ch 2
שבר III [m.] corn, grain, as food stuff (perhaps broken, i.e. threshed, HoffmZAW iii (1883), 122 SS Siegf Ne 10
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.m. Je 4:5 breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash;—abs. שֶׁבֶר Is 51:19 +, שָׁ֑בֶר La 3:47; Pr 17;19, cstr. שֶׁבֶר Is 1:28 +, שֵׁבֶר Am 6:6 +; sf. שִׁבְרִי Je 10:19, etc.; pl. שְׁבָרִים Jos 7:5 Jb 41:17 (dub., v. infr.), sf. שְׁכָרֶיהָ ψ 60:4;—
II. n.pr.m. a Calebite 1 Ch 2:48; Σαβερ, A Σεβερ, 𝔊L Σαβαρ.
III. n.[m.] corn, grain, as food stuff (perhaps broken, i.e. threshed, HoffmZAW iii (1883), 122 SS Siegf Ne 10:32; > Köii. 1, 19 n breaking out, i.e. sprouting (as chief fruit of soil); hence NH שִׁבָּרוֹן price of corn);—שׁ׳ abs. Gn 42:1 +; cstr. v 19; sf. שִׁבְרָם v 26, שִׁבְרוֹ 44:2;—corn, grain 42:1, 2, 19, 26; 43:2; 44:2; 47:14 (acc. cogn.), Am 8:5 (id.); so perhaps (for בָּר) Gn 42:3 LagBN 230; כָּל־שׁ׳ Ne 10:32 all kinds of grain.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שבר (shâbar) (H7665) — to break.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שֵׂבֶר
- , v. סֵבֶר
שְׂבַר
- , Poël שׂוֹבַר, v. סְבַר II.
שָׁבַר I
- (b. h.)
- 1. to break. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᵈ (play on אכל תשברו, Deut. II, 6) באכל תִּשְׁבְּרוֹ האכלתו שְׁבַרְתּוֹ with food break him (his ill-will); when thou hast given him to eat, thou hast broken him; אם היה קשה עליך באכל תשברו וכ׳ if he is hard on thee, break him with food, and if not (if thou succeedest not with food), heap silver upon him; Y. Sabb. I, 3ᶜ bot. Tanḥ. Sh’laḥ. 9 נתכוונו … לִשְׁבּוֹר לבן וכ׳ the spies intended to break the heart (courage) of the Israelites (ref. to ויניאו, Num. XXXII, 9). Tosef. B. Mets. II, 26 אוהבו … כדי לשבור את לבו if a friend requires help for loading, and an enemy for unloading (to relieve the broken down beast of burden), it is commended to help the enemy in order to break his heart (hatred); (B. Mets. 32ᵇ כדי לכוף את יצרו). Pesik. Eth Korb., p. 59ᵇ נטל את הטבלא … ושְׁבָרָהּ he took the plate … and shattered it. Ex. R. s. 18 (ref. to Ps. LXXVII, 7) נזכרת אני את השברים שהיית שׁוֹבֵר וכ׳ I remember the breaks with which thou brokest (the calamities with which thou didst visit) the empires for me by night; בא … שָׁבַרְתָּ וכ׳ Sennacherib came upon me, thou brokest him at night (v. infra Hof.); a. v. fr.—Y. Shebi. VIII, beg. 37ᵈ כל מדרש שאתה דורש ושׁוֹבֵר וכ׳ a textual interpretation which you introduce, and by which you break (upset partially) a previous interpretation of the same verse, is no legitimate interpretation. Tanḥ. Vayera 13 סופו … שובר את ראשו the end of the verse breaks (contradicts) its beginning. Cant. R. to VII, 9 (expl. דתבריא, Dan. III, 2) the scholars (scholastici) are called d’thabraya (v. תְּבַר), שהם שׁוֹבְרִים הדברים because they break (twist out of joint) the words (of the law).—Part. pass. שָׁבוּר, f. שְׁבוּרָה having a broken limb, injured. B. Mets. I, 4 רצין … אחר צבי ש׳ running … after a wounded deer. Ib. 94ᵇ ש׳ ומתה a borrowed animal that was injured or that died. Ib. נשבעין על הש׳ must make oath concerning an injured animal in their charge; a. fr.—2) (denom. of שׁוֹבֵר) to give a receipt; to acknowledge payment; to acquit. Tosef. Keth. IV, 11 שָׁבְרָה לו (על) מקצת כתובתה שברה לו אל כולה if she gave him a receipt for a portion of her jointure, she has released him of all obligations of the marriage contract. Ib. IX, 1 כונסה … והיא שׁוֹבֶרֶת לו וכ׳ he marries her and divorces her (and remarries her), and she gives him a receipt for her jointure (by which act the mortgage on the entire estate is cancelled); Y. ib. VIII, 32ᵇ bot.; Y. Yeb. IV, 5ᵈ; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 2:6
- to break. Sabb. 105ᵇ המקרע … והמְשַׁבֵּר כליו וכ׳ he who in his anger tears his garment or breaks his vessels, … let him be in thy sight like an idolater; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשׁוּבָּר. Pesik. R. s. 17 (ref. to Job I, 15) מש׳ ומלוקה היה he (that escaped) was broken of limbs and smitten; Ruth R. to I, 5; Lev. R. s. 17 מוּשְׁבָּר; Yalk. Job 892 מושבר. e.g. Job 1:15
- to be broken. Pesik. Vattom., p. 129ᵇ (ref. to Ps. LXXVII, 7) נזכרת אני שֶׁבֶר שהוּשְׁבַּרְתִּי וכ׳ (not שכר שהושכ׳) I remember how I was broken (crushed) among the empires (v. supra); Lam. R. to I, 2 שהָשְׁבַּרְתִּי … בלילן וכ׳ how I was broken before thee in the night of persecution by the empires; Yalk. Ps. 816; a. fr.—Part. מוּשְׁבָּר, v. supra. e.g. Psalms 77:7
- , Nithpa. נִשְׁתַּבֵּר same. B. Mets. VI, 4. Kel. III, 3 ונִשְׁבְּרָה and was again broken. Ib. XI, 1 נִשְׁבְּרוּ טהרו when they are broken, they are no longer susceptible of uncleanness. Gen. R. s. 91 נִשְׁתַּבְּרוּ שיניהם their teeth were broken (fell out). Y. Kidd. I, beg. 58ᵇ נשבר קל וחומר the conclusion a minori is impaired. Ab. Zar. 50ᵇ, sq. זריקה מִשְׁתַּבֶּרֶת an interrupted throwing, i.e. sprinkling a liquid, but not throwing a solid object; a. fr.—Treat. Der. Er. ch. X מִשְׁתַּבֵּר על השיש ‘has his limbs broken’ (a sort of massage) on the marble floor (in the bath-house, in the presence of other people).
שָׁבַר II
- to buy provisions. Gen. R. s. 91 אף … לִשְׁבָּר אוכל Joseph, too, knew that his brothers were coming down to Egypt to buy food; ib. כל מי שנכנס לִשְׁבּוֹר וכ׳ let whomsoever enters (Egypt) to buy food register his name &c; Tanḥ. Mikk. 8.
- to sell provisions, to supply. Ib. (ref. to מַשְׁבִּיר, Prov. XI, 26) זה יוסף שזן וכ׳ that means Joseph who sustained the world &c.; Gen. R. l. c.; a. e.—[Tanḥ. ed. Bub. Vayesheb 13 משביר אותו, read: מַשְׂכִּיר.] e.g. Proverbs 11:26
שֶׁבֶר I
- 1. break, fracture. Sabb. XXII, 6 אין מחזירין את הש׳ you must not set a fracture (on the Sabbath). T’bul Yom IV, 7 שלום מן הש׳ וכ׳ (he meant) that it will be brought up in safety without being broken and without being spilt; Y. Ter. II, 41ᶜ top; a. e.—Trnsf. destruction, calamity. Gen. R. s. 91 (play on שֶׁבֶר, Gen. XLII, 1, a. סֵבֶר) כי יש ש׳ זה הרעב כי יש סבר זה השבע וכ׳ ‘that there is a calamity’, that means the famine; ‘that there is brightness’, that means plenty &c. Ib. והלא כבר נאמר ותרעב … יש ש׳ has it not been said before, ‘and all the land of Egypt was hungry’? what is meant by ‘there is a calamity in Egypt’? &c. Pesik. Vattom., p. 129ᵇ (not שכר); Yalk. Ps. 816, v. שָׁבַר I; a. e.—Pl. שְׁבָרִים, constr. שִׁבְרֵי. Gen. R. s. 30 (ref. to Job XII, 5) שהיו מוכנים לשני ש׳ לשבר מלמעלן וכ׳ they were predestined for two calamities, for destruction from above (rain), and for destruction from below (rise of the deeps). Ex. R. s. 18, v. שָׁבַר I. Kel. XI, 3, a. fr. שברי כלים fragments of vessels, broken vessels. B. Bath. 14ᵇ שברי לוחות the tablets broken by Moses. Ber. 8ᵇ הזהרו בזקן … לוחות ושברי וכ׳ be careful not to despise an old man that has forgotten his learning through no fault of his, for we are told, the (whole) tablets and the broken ones were deposited in the Ark; Men. 99ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 42:1
- 2. a broken ejaculation, sigh, esp. the broken disconnected sounds produced on the Shofar. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ top (play on אֵד, Gen. II, 6) עלה ש׳ מלמטן וכ׳ when the broken tune (at the prayer meeting) rises from below, at once the rain comes down.—Pl. as ab. R. Hash. 34ᵃ שיעור תרועה כשלשה ש׳ the value of a t’ruʿah (a succession of tremulous sounds) is equal to three sh’barim. Ib. אתקין … שלשה ש׳ תרועה וכ׳ R. Abbahu introduced in Cæsaræa (for the New Year’s Day) the blowing of a t’ḳiʿah (a succession of connected notes), three sh’barim, a tr’uʿah, and a t’ḳi‘ah; a. e. e.g. Genesis 2:6
שֶׁבֶר II
- ; ש׳ רעבון, v. Gen. XLII, 19 a. 33, cmp. Ps. CIV, 11; v. Ehrlich Miḳra ki-Pheschuṭô, p. 114 sq.) (sale of) provisions (in time of famine). Gen. R. s. 91 מפני … יש אוכל במצרים שאמר הכתוב יש ש׳ וכ׳ why does not the Scripture say (Gen. XLII, 1) ‘there was okhel (food) in Egypt? (why is it) that the text says, ‘there was sheber’? e.g. Genesis 42:19
שִׁבַר
- (denom. of בַּר II, בְּרָא) [boy, Syr.,] simple, foolish (corresp. to h. פֶּתִי). Targ. Prov. IX, 4 (some ed. שכר, corr. acc.). Ib. XIV, 15. Targ. Job V, 2 (ed. Wil. שְׁבִירָא). Targ. Ps. XIX, 8 (ed. Lag. שִׁיבְרָא; ed. Wil. שִׂבְ׳, corr. acc.); a. e.—Pl. שַׁבְרֵי. Targ. Prov. I, 4; 22; 32; a. fr.—Fem. שְׁבַרְתָּא. Ib. IX, 13 (ed. Wil. שִׁבְרָתָה; some ed. שכ׳, corr. acc.).
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Forms in the corpus
The 31 distinct written forms H7667 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7667, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משבר mishbêr H4866 breach
- משבר mishbâr H4867 breaker
- שברון shibrôwn H7670 destruction
- תבר tᵉbar H8406 to break
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 38 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 41 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 21:19
- Judges 7:15
- Job 41:25
- Psalms 60:2
- Proverbs 15:4
- Isaiah 1:28
- Jeremiah 4:6
- Lamentations 2:11
- Ezekiel 32:9
- Amos 6:6
- Nahum 3:19
- Zephaniah 1:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
