תְּבַר
to break
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal Passive
- An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8406 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 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.
תבר (tᵉbar) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to break.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Daniel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Daniel 2:42. Related forms include שבר, משבר and משבר. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8406 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Broken 1×
- American Standard Version: Broken 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Brittle 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brittle 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8406 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8406 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8406 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8406 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to break
Word origin
[ תְּבַר ] vb. break;— Pe. Dn 2:42
— 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.
מִתְבְּרָא
- , pl. (תְּבַר) מִתְבְּרִין = b. h. מִשְׁבָּרִים, breakers, waves. Targ. Ps. XLII, 8.
תָּבַר
- , v. תָּפַר
תְּבַר
- = h. שָׁבַר, to break. Targ. Gen. XIX, 9. Targ. Jer. XIX, 10; a. fr.—Part. pass. תְּבִיר; f. תְּבִירָא; pl. תְּבִירִין; תְֹּבִירָן. Targ. Ps. XXXI, 13. Targ. Jer. II, 13; a. fr.; v. תְּבִירָא II.—B. Kam. 10ᵇ בהדי דסמיך בהו ת׳ (not דסמוך) while he leaned on them, he broke (the bench).
- same. Targ. Ex. IX, 25 (ed. Vien. תְּבַר; Y. תְּבִיר). Targ. Ps. XXIX, 5 Ms. (ed. מַתְבַּר Af.). Targ. Ex. XXIII, 24. Targ. Jer. I, 17; a. fr.—Yoma 78ᵇ תַּבּוּרֵי מאני breaking of vessels (as a child’s pleasure). Ib. זבין … ומְתַבְּרֵי להו (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 100) bought defective vessels for his children, and they broke them, v. גְּזַז; a. e.—[Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ bot. מתברא בצדדיא, read: מבחרא בצרריא, v. צְרָרָא II.]
- ; Ithpe. אִתְתְּבַר, אִתְּבַר (אִתְבַּר) to be broken. Targ. Jon. I, 4. Targ. Ex. XXII, 9 (Y. ed. Vien. אִיתְבִיר). Ib. 12 (h. text יטרף). Targ. Jer. XXIII, 9. Targ. Prov. XIV, 28 (h. text מחתת); a. fr.—Ber. 22ᵃ, v. חַצְבָּא. B. Kam. l. c. דבלאו איהו לא א׳ if without him (sitting on it), it would not have been broken. Ib. בלאו איהו הוה מִיתְּבַר וכ׳ without him, it would have broken down after two hours; a. e.
תְּבַר ²
- (preced.)
- 1. break, fracture; breach, misfortune. Targ. Lev. XXIV, 20. Targ. O. ib. XXI, 19, v. תְּבִיר. Targ. Job VI, 21; a. fr.—Taan. 31ᵃ וקרי ליה יום ת׳ מגל and it is called the day of breaking the axe; Lam. R. introd. (R. Z’ʿera).
- 2. contradiction. Gen. R. s. 30 אף היא לא ת׳ this, too, is no contradiction of the rule; Esth. R. to II, 5 תַּבְרָה. Sabb. 92ᵇ; B. Kam. 47ᵇ, a. fr. ת׳ מי ששנה זו וכ׳ there is a contradiction (between the two clauses of the Mishnah); he that taught the one &c., v. שָׁנָה I; [R. Ḥănanel: excommunication (v. infra), meant as an imprecation].
- 3. refutation, answer. Kidd. 74ᵇ (in Hebr. dict.) א"כ מצידה תַּבְרָהּ (Var. in Ar. s. v. צד: מצמדה) if this be so, its refutation is taken from what is next to it.
- 4. = h. שׁוֹבֵר, receipt. B. Bath. 173ᵃ ונחזי ת׳ … דכתיב let us see in whose name the receipt is written.
- 5. pl. תַּבְרֵי = h. שְׁבָרִים (v. שֶׁבֶר) the broken sounds of the Shofar on proclaiming the excommunication of a person. M. Kat. 17ᵇ מאי ת׳ … תברי וכ׳ Rashi (ed. incorr. תברא) why is the blowing of the Shofar at excommunications called tabré (breaks)?… They break down high houses.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8406, 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
- שבר sheber H7667 breaking
- שברון shibrôwn H7670 destruction
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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