Hebrew verb · H7666
שָׁבַר
shabarshaw-bar'
to buy grain
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâbar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7666is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7666
to deal in grain
The King James renders it: buy, sell.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shabar is rendered "to buy grain". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:56When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:56וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-one uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to buy4
- to buy grain3
- buy2
- buy grain2
- and buy grain1
- and he bought grain1
- and we will buy1
- buying grain1
- sells grain1
- so we may sell grain1
- the sold grain1
- we will sell grain1
and 2 more, 21 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁבַע | shaba | to swear | Uses186 |
| שָׁבַר | shabar | to break | Uses147 |
| שָׁבַת | shabath | to cease | Uses71 |
| שָׁבָה | shabah | to take captive | Uses47 |
| שָׁבוּעַ | shabua | Weeks | Uses20 |
| שָׁבַח | shabach | to soothe | Uses11 |
| שָׁבַץ | shabats | to weave | Uses2 |
| שָׁבִיל | shabil | path | Uses2 |
| שָׁבָב | shabab | fragment | Uses1 |
| שָׁבָץ | shabats | agony | Uses1 |
| שָׁבִיב | shabib | flame | Uses1 |
| שָׁבִיס | shabis | headband | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִשְׁבָּר־4
- לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר2
- שִׁבְרוּ־2
- הַמַּשְׁבִּ֖יר1
- וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣ר1
- וְנַשְׁבִּ֣ירָה1
- וְנִשְׁבְּרָ֥ה1
- וְשִׁבְרוּ־1
- לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר1
- מַשְׁבִּֽיר׃1
- נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃1
- שִׁבְרוּ֙1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)7HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural4HVqv2mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common plural1HC/Vhc1cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common plural1HC/Vqc1cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Vqv2mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vhrmsa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common plural1HVhi1cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
Genesis
fourteen uses
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣רvaiyishborHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he bought grain
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- לִשְׁבֹּ֖רlishborpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy grain
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
- וְשִׁבְרוּ־veshivru-conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and buy grain
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- לִשְׁבֹּ֥רlishborpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy grain
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
- לִשְׁבֹּ֖רlishborpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy grain
Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.
- הַמַּשְׁבִּ֖ירhamashbirthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the sold grain
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- לִשְׁבָּר־lishbor-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
- לִשְׁבָּר־lishbor-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- שִׁבְרוּ־shivru-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: buy
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
- וְנִשְׁבְּרָ֥הvenishberahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and we will buy
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
- לִשְׁבָּר־lishbor-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.”
- לִשְׁבָּר־lishbor-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to buy
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
- שִׁבְרוּ־shivru-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: buy
Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.
- שֹׁבְרִ֑יםshoerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: buying grain
Deuteronomy
two uses
You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
- תִּשְׁבְּר֧וּtishberuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will buy
You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,
- תַּשְׁבִּרֵ֙נִי֙tashbireniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will sell me
Proverbs
one use
The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
- מַשְׁבִּֽיר׃mashbirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: sells grain
Isaiah
two uses
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- שִׁבְרוּ֙shivruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: buy grain
- שִׁבְר֗וּshivruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: buy grain
Amos
two uses
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- וְנַשְׁבִּ֣ירָהvenashbirahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so we may sell grain
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃nashbirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will sell grain
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.