Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7668
שֶׁבֶר
shebersheh'-ber
grain
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7668is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7668
grain (as if broken into kernels)
The King James renders it: corn, victuals.
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
sheber is rendered "grain". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 42:1When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
Genesis 42:1שֶׁ֖בֶר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- grain4
- for the grain1
- grain his1
- grain of1
- grain their1
- the grain1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֶׁבַע | sheba | seven | Uses394 |
| שֶׁבֶר | sheber | breaking | Uses45 |
| שֶׁבֶת | shebeth | seat | Uses6 |
| שֶׁבֶת | shebeth | cessation | Uses3 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- שֶׁ֖בֶר3
- בַּשֶּׁ֖בֶר1
- הַשֶּׁ֔בֶר1
- שֶׁ֜בֶר1
- שֶּׁ֔בֶר1
- שִׁבְר֑וֹ1
- שִׁבְרָ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
seven uses
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- שֶׁ֖בֶרshevernoun · masculine singulartagged: 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.”
- שֶׁ֖בֶרshevernoun · masculine singulartagged: grain
If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
- שֶׁ֖בֶרshevernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grain of
and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
- שִׁבְרָ֖םshivramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: grain their
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.”
- הַשֶּׁ֔בֶרhasheverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the grain
Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
- שִׁבְר֑וֹshivronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: grain his
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.
- בַּשֶּׁ֖בֶרbasheverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the grain
Nehemiah
one use
When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.
- שֶׁ֜בֶרshevernoun · masculine singulartagged: grain
Amos
one use
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.
- שֶּׁ֔בֶרshevernoun · masculine singulartagged: 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 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.