shavar · buy grain

What it means

shavar (שָׁבַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “buy grain”.

Buy or sell grain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To get wheat or barley by paying for it, especially in time of famine.
2. To give wheat or barley to others in return for money.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• buy ×14
• sold grain ×2
• one who sells it ×1
• we may sell ×1
• we will sell ×1
• were buying ×1
• you will sell me ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×14
• Deuteronomy×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Amos×2

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses that were in them and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine grew strong in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:57

  All the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was strong in all the earth.

• Genesis 42:2

  He said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, so that we may live and not die.”

• Genesis 42:3

  So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

• Genesis 42:5

  The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:6

  Joseph was the governor over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

• Genesis 42:7

  Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he made himself a stranger to them and spoke with them harshly. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

• Genesis 42:10

  They said to him, “No, my lord; your servants have come to buy food.

• Genesis 43:2

  When they had finished eating the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

• Genesis 43:4

  If you are sending our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

• Genesis 43:20

  and said, “Please, my lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

• Genesis 43:22

  And other silver we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our bags.”

• Genesis 44:25

  And our father said, ‘Go back, buy us a little food.’

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph gathered up all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain that they were buying; and Joseph brought the silver into the house of Pharaoh.

• Deuteronomy 2:6

  Food you shall buy from them for silver, and eat; and also water you shall acquire from them for silver, and drink.’

• Deuteronomy 2:28

  Food for silver you will sell me, and I will eat; and water for silver you will give me, and I will drink. Only let me pass through on foot,

• Proverbs 11:26

  Whoever withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing is on the head of the one who sells it.

• Isaiah 55:1

  “Ho! All who are thirsty, come to the waters! And the one who has no silver, come, buy and eat; come, buy without silver and without price wine and milk.

• Amos 8:5

  saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

• Amos 8:6

  to buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of the wheat we will sell?”

And 1 more times.