שָׁבַר
šābar
break
Strong's H7665VerbHebrewTWOT 2321

שָׁבַר (šābar) is a Hebrew verb meaning break. It appears 149 times in 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7665).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2321)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2321)break, break in pieces; be broken; shatter; cause to break out, bring to the birth; burst; brokenhearted, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, tear, view
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שָׁבַר verb: break, break in pieces

Strong's H7665 שָׁבַר: to burst (literally or figuratively)
KJV:break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, × quite, tear, view (by mistake for H7663).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 19:9Exodus 9:25Leviticus 11:33

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