Breaking
שִׁבָּרוֹןStrong’s H7670shivron (shiv-ron)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shivron is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction” and “breaking of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.”
Meaning
- Destruction, breaking, shattering, crushing
How it's translated
- destruction 1
- with breaking of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁבָּרוֹן shivron · breaking
destruction, breaking, shattering, crushing
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.