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# שָׂבַר

Biblical Hebrew

**inspect** — used 2 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

inspect [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂבַר: vb. inspect, examine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. inspect, examine (van d. H. שֹׁבֵר \[so 𝔊 συντρίβων\], but Mas. שׂ׳ v. Norzi; hence connex. with Arabic سَبَرَ probe a wound, try, examine, improb., and this (according to Frä261) denom. from Aramaic loan-word; improb. also is connex. with Aramaic סְבַר think (cf. foll.), KauAram. im AT, 85);— Pt. שֹׂבֵר, c. ב obj., Ne 2:13, 15 I examined into the wall, inspected it closely.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: examining (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.15/#tree)

וָאֱהִ֨י עֹלֶ֤ה בַנַּ֙חַל֙ לַ֔יְלָה וָאֱהִ֥י שֹׂבֵ֖ר בַּחוֹמָ֑ה וָאָשׁ֗וּב וָאָב֛וֹא בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַגַּ֖יְא וָאָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* and I.was going.up in the wadi night and I.was examining (on) the wall and I.turned.back and I.went in the.gate of the.valley and I.returned

*JPS 1917:* Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

[Nehemiah 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.13/#tree)

וָאֵצְאָ֨ה בְשַֽׁעַר־הַגַּ֜יא לַ֗יְלָה וְאֶל־פְּנֵי֙ עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין וְאֶל־שַׁ֖עַר הָאַשְׁפֹּ֑ת וָאֱהִ֨י שֹׂבֵ֜ר בְּחוֹמֹ֤ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֣ם ׀ פְּרוּצִ֔ים וּשְׁעָרֶ֖יהָ אֻכְּל֥וּ בָאֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and I went.out by the.gate of the.valley night and to the.face of the.Well.of.the.Dragons and to the.gate of the.dung and I.was examining (on).the walls of.Jerusalem which they \[were\].broken.down and gates its they.had.been.consumed by (the) fire

*JPS 1917:* And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/): 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).