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# שָׁבַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7666

**buy grain** — used 21 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

buy grain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7666/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁבַר²: vb.denom. buy grain Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7666/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. buy grain;— Impf. 2 mpl. תִּשְׁבְּרוּ Dt 2:6, 1 pl. נִשְׁבְּרָה Gn 43:4; Imv. mpl. שִׁבְרוּ 42:2 +; Inf. cstr. לִשְׁבֹּר v 3 +, לִשְׁבָּר־ v 7 +; Pt. mpl. שֹׁבְרִים 47:14;—buy grain for food Gn 41:57 (v 56 v. Hiph.), 42:2 (שֶׁבֶר in v a), v 5; c. acc. אֹכֶל v 7, 10; 43:2, 4, 20, 22; 44:25; Dt 2:6 (מִן pers.); c. acc. בָּר Gn 42:3, שֶׁבֶר 47:14; fig. Is 55:1, c. acc. יַיִן וְחָלָב v 1. Impf. 1 pl. נַשְׁבִּיר Am 8:6 etc.; Pt. מַשְׁבִּיר Gn 42:6 Pr 11:26;—sell grain (proposes cause to buy grain), c. ל pers. Gn 42:6 + 41:56 (read וַיַּשְׁבֵּר for MT וַיִּשְׁבֹּר Ol Di Gunk), c. acc. שֶׁבֶר Am 8:5, מַפַּל בָּר v 6, cf. Pr 11:26; c. sf. pers. + acc. אֹכֶל + ב pret. Dt 2:28.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: buy (6); buy grain (6); \[one who\] sold grain (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 42:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/#tree)

וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֲחֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף עֲשָׂרָ֑ה לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר בָּ֖ר מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down the.brothers of.Joseph ten to buy.grain grain from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.

[Genesis 44:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.25/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָבִ֑ינוּ שֻׁ֖בוּ שִׁבְרוּ־לָ֥נוּ מְעַט־אֹֽכֶל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said father our go.back buy for us a.little of.food

*JPS 1917:* And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7666.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7666/): 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).