שֶׁבֶר
šeber
breaking
Strong's H7667NounHebrewTWOT 2321a

שֶׁבֶר (šeber) is a Hebrew noun meaning breaking. It appears 44 times in 12 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7667).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2321a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2321a)breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash; ruin, solution; affliction, broken, bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שֶׁ֫בֶר noun, masculine: breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

Strong's H7667 שֶׁבֶר: a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
KJV:affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.

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.

Root family 2321: שָׁבַר šābar — break, break in pieces; be broken; shatter; cause to break out, bring to the birth; burst; brokenhearted, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, tear, view

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 21:19Judges 7:15Proverbs 15:4

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