Birth
מַשְׁבֵּרStrong’s H4866mishber (mish-ber)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishber is the Hebrew word usually translated “birth” and “at birth of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”
Meaning
- Place of breaking forth, place of breach, openingof womb
How it's translated
- birth 2
- at birth of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 37:3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
- Hosea 13:13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׁבֵּר mishber · birth
1) place of breaking forth, place of breach, opening 1a) of womb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “birth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BIRTH, noun
berth. [Latin partus, the participle of pario, to bear.]
- The act of coming into life, or of being born.
- Lineage; extraction; descent; as, Grecian birth
- The condition in which a person is born.
- That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
All definitions and other forms of “birth”
- The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth
- In a theological sense, regeneration is called the new birth
- Origin; beginning; as the birth of an empire.
BIRTH, BERTH, noun
A station in which a ship rider. [See Berth.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.