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# מַשְׁבֵּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4866

**place of breach** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

place of breach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4866/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׁבֵּר²: breach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4866/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] breach, i.e. mouth of womb;—בָּאוּ בָנִים עַד־מַשְׁבֵּר וְכֹחַ אַיִן לְלֵדָה 2 K 19:3 = Is 37:3 (fig. of helplessness); cstr. בָּנִים מִשְׁבַּר Ho 13:13 (fig. of opportunity).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] mouth of \[the\] womb (2); breaking forth (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 13:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.13.13/#tree)

חֶבְלֵ֥י יֽוֹלֵדָ֖ה יָבֹ֣אוּ ל֑וֹ הוּא־בֵן֙ לֹ֣א חָכָ֔ם כִּֽי־עֵ֥ת לֹֽא־יַעֲמֹ֖ד בְּמִשְׁבַּ֥ר בָּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].labor-pains of.\[one.who\].gives.birth they.will.come to him he \[is\].a.son not wise (dm) a.time not he.will.present.himself at.\[the\] breaking.forth of.children

*JPS 1917:* The throes of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

[2 Kings 19:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.3/#tree)

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ יוֹם־צָרָ֧ה וְתוֹכֵחָ֛ה וּנְאָצָ֖ה הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֣י בָ֤אוּ בָנִים֙ עַד־מַשְׁבֵּ֔ר וְכֹ֥חַ אַ֖יִן לְלֵדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.said to him thus he.says Hezekiah \[is\].a.day of.distress and rebuke and insult the day (the) this (dm) they.have.come children to \[the\].mouth.of.\[the\].womb and strength there.\[is\].not for giving.birth

*JPS 1917:* And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4866.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4866/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).