Wave
מִשְׁבָּרStrong’s H4867mishbar (mish-bar)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishbar is the Hebrew word usually translated “breakers your” and “breakers of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;”
Meaning
- Breaker, breaking (of sea)
How it's translated
- breakers your 3
- breakers of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jonah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- Psalms 93:4The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
- Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁבָּר mishbar · wave
breaker, breaking (of sea)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAVE, noun
[G.]
- A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind.
- Unevenness; inequality of surface.
- The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.
All definitions and other forms of “wave”
WAVE, verb intransitive
- To play loosely; to move like a wave one way and the other; to float; to undulate.
- To be moved, as a signal.
- To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
WAVE, verb transitive
[See Waver.]
- To raise into inequalities of surface.
- To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword.
- To waft; to remove any thing floating.
- To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion.
WAVE, verb transitive
- To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave good stolen; usually written waive.
- To quit; to depart from.
- To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion.
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.