Breaking
שֶׁ֫בֶרStrong’s H7667shever (she-ver)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shever is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction”, “fracture” and “fracture of”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,”
Meaning
- Breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash, ruin, shatteringbreaking, fracture, shattering, crushing · crashing · breaking (of a dream), interpretation · quarries
How it's translated
- and destruction 7
- destruction 4
- a fracture 3
- fracture of 3
- brokenness of 3
- a fracture of 2
- fracture your 2
- interpretation its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 14
- Isaiah 9
- Lamentations 5
- Proverbs 4
- Leviticus 3
- Judges 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 22:22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 24:20Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
- Judges 7:15And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
- Job 41:25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
- Psalms 60:2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
- Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫בֶר shever · breaking
1) breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash, ruin, shattering 1a) breaking, fracture, shattering, crushing 1b) crashing 1c) breaking (of a dream), interpretation 1d) quarries
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breaking” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREAKING, participle present
tense Parting by violence; rending asunder; becoming bankrupt.
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.