Word Study · Strong's H7664 · Hebrew
שֵׂבֶר
seber
say'-ber
Strong's 1890 spelling: sêber
“expectation”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
expectation
Rendered in the KJV as
hope.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- מִשִּׂבְרִֽי׃1
- שִׂ֝בְר֗וֹ1
How it is rendered · 2
- from hope my1
- hope his1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 1
- HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 1
All 2, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Psalms2 occurrences
- Psalms 119:116מִשִּׂבְרִֽי׃misivripreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singularSustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.here: from hope my
- Psalms 146:5שִׂ֝בְר֗וֹsivronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularBlessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,here: hope his