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# מִשְׁבָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4867

**breaker** — used 5 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

breaker [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4867/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁבָּר: breaker [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4867/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] breaker, of sea;—pl. cstr. מִשְׁבְּרֵי־יָם ψ 93:4 (‖ קֹלוֹת מַיִם רַבִּים; in comp. of י׳’s majesty); fig. of calamities, מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָוֶת 2 S 22:5 (חֶבְלֵי־מָוֶת in ‖ ψ 18:5); as sent by י׳, מִשְׁבָּרֶיךָ ψ 88:8, מ׳ וְגַלֶּיךָ 42:8 Jon 2:4.—Jb 41:17 v. i. שֶׁבֶר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: breakers (4); \[the\] breakers (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֥י אֲפָפֻ֖נִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת נַחֲלֵ֥י בְלִיַּ֖עַל יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they encompassed.me breakers of.death torrents of.worthlessness they overwhelmed.me

*JPS 1917:* For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.

[Psalms 88:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.8/#tree)

עָ֭לַי סָמְכָ֣ה חֲמָתֶ֑ךָ וְכָל־מִ֝שְׁבָּרֶ֗יךָ עִנִּ֥יתָ סֶּֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* on me it.has.lain anger your and all breakers your you.have.afflicted.\[me\] Selah

*JPS 1917:* Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and all Thy waves Thou pressest down.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4867.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4867/): 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).