שֶׁבֶר
shever · grain
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7668 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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shever (שֶׁבֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grain”.
Bought or sold.
How to say it
she·ver
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
- Cereal to buy or sell as food.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Genesis 42:1
Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at one another?”
- 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 42:19
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be held prisoner in the house where you are held, and you go, take grain for the hunger of your households.
- Genesis 42:26
They loaded their grain on their donkeys and went from there.
- 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 44:2
And my cup, the silver cup, put in the mouth of the bag of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had spoken.
- 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.
- Nehemiah 10:31
and as for the peoples of the land who bring the merchandise and any grain on the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take anything from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day; and we will leave the seventh year and the loan of every hand.
- 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,