Grain
שֶׁ֫בֶרStrong’s H7668shever (she-ver)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shever is the Hebrew word usually translated “grain”, “grain of” and “grain their”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?”
Meaning
- Grain, corn (as foodstuff)
How it's translated
- grain 4
- grain of 1
- grain their 1
- the grain 1
- grain his 1
- for the grain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Nehemiah 1
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 42:2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
- Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
- Genesis 42:26And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
- Genesis 43:2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 44:2And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- Genesis 47:14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫בֶר shever · grain
grain, corn (as foodstuff)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAIN, noun
[Latin granum.]
- Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel.
- A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast.
- grain without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.
- A minute particle.
All definitions and other forms of “grain”
- A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.
- A component part of stones and metals.
- The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain
- The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
- The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain
- Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
- Dyed or stained substance.
- The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.
- The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain
- The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain
- A tine, prong or spike.
GRAIN, verb intransitive
To yield fruit.
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.