שֶׁ֫בֶר

Leviticus 21:19 שֶׁ֣בֶר שֶׁ֥בֶר a fracture of

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

Leviticus 22:22 שָׁב֜וּר a fracture

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 24:20 שֶׁ֚בֶר שֶׁ֔בֶר a fracture

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

Judges 7:15 שִׁבְר֖וֹ interpretation its

When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

Job 41:25 מִ֝שְּׁבָרִ֗ים from crashing<s>

When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

Psalm 60:2 שְׁבָרֶ֣יהָ fractures its

You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.

Here: 'Its breaks.' The plural points to many fractures. The word is used for broken bones, smashed vessels and a nation that has collapsed. Here it means the cracks in the land and, through them, the shattered state of the people.

Proverbs 15:4 שֶׁ֣בֶר [is] brokenness

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Here: A break, like a broken bone or a city wall smashed in disaster. It is the stock opposite of marpēʾ ('healing'). Proverbs itself pairs the two: 'he will be broken, and there will be no healing' (6:15; 29:1).

Proverbs 16:18 שֶׁ֥בֶר breaking

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Here: A shattering, the way a bone or a clay jar breaks. Used of people, it means a collapse or a ruin. The picture is something high that cracks and comes down.

Proverbs 17:19 שָֽׁבֶר׃ ruin

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.

Here: A breaking or smash: used of broken bones, a collapsing wall, a shattered pot. After the picture of a raised-up doorway, it suggests the whole proud structure coming down.

Proverbs 18:12 שֶׁ֭בֶר destruction

Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Here: A violent break: a bone snapping, a pot shattering, a city or nation collapsing. It is put first for emphasis. It means ruin you can see, not only a quiet sense of failure.

Isaiah 1:28 וְשֶׁ֧בֶר and a crushing of

But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

Here: A noun, not a verb: the line opens with no verb at all, just 'and a smashing of…', which makes it sound like an announcement or a headline of disaster. The word is used for broken bones, a collapsing wall and a nation's ruin. It also echoes the sound of 'her returning ones' (shaveha) in v. 27.

Isaiah 15:5 שֶׁ֖בֶר shattering

My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

Here: A smashing or crash, as of a broken vessel or a fracture. Here it means national collapse. 'A cry of shattering' is the wail that goes up when everything breaks.

Isaiah 30:13 שִׁבְרָֽהּ׃ breaking its

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

Here: 'Its breaking' (its = the wall's): the crash and shattering of the collapse. Verse 14 picks up the same word at once and turns it into a smashed clay jar.

Isaiah 30:14 כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר like [the] breaking of

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Here: The noun from the same root as the verb before it. Repeating the root drives the point home: it will be broken the way a jar is broken.

Isaiah 30:26 שֶׁ֣בֶר [the] fracture of

The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.

Here: A break, such as a fractured bone, and by extension a nation's collapse. It echoes vv. 13–14, where Judah's guilt brings a sudden 'breaking' like a wall falling or a clay jar smashed.

Isaiah 51:19 וְהַשֶּׁ֛בֶר and the destruction

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

Isaiah 59:7 וָשֶׁ֖בֶר and destruction

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Here: Fracture and collapse, as of a bone, a wall or a nation. Joined to shōd it forms a stock pair, 'devastation and shattering', which Isaiah 60:18 promises will no longer be heard in the land.

Isaiah 60:18 וָשֶׁ֖בֶר and destruction

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Here: 'And breaking'. The word is used for a broken bone, a breach in a wall, and a nation's collapse. Paired with 'devastation', the two together mean ruin in every form, and the same pair is used of Israel's own sins in 59:7.

Isaiah 65:14 וּמִשֵּׁ֥בֶר and from brokenness of

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

Here: 'And from the breaking of...' The word is used for a broken bone and for national collapse. It pictures something shattered, not just low spirits.

Jeremiah 4:6 וְשֶׁ֥בֶר and destruction

Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.

Here: "And a breaking." The word used for a fractured limb is applied to a whole nation, a far more physical image than the abstract English "destruction."

Jeremiah 4:20 שֶׁ֤בֶר שֶׁ֙בֶר֙ destruction

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Here: A smashing or shattering, the word used for a broken bone or a smashed pot, and in Jeremiah for national collapse (4:6, 6:1). Here it is the first of a pair: one catastrophe.

Jeremiah 6:1 וְשֶׁ֥בֶר and destruction

“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

Here: Breaking or fracture, like a smashed pot or a broken bone. It means the collapse of the nation, not only damage.

Jeremiah 6:14 שֶׁ֤בֶר [the] fracture of

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

Here: A break, like a broken bone, and also the 'crash' of a nation collapsing. In 6:1 the same word names the 'great destruction' coming from the north, so the wound being waved off is the disaster that is on its way.

Jeremiah 8:11 שֶׁ֤בֶר [the] fracture of

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

Jeremiah 8:21 שֶׁ֥בֶר [the] brokenness of

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

Jeremiah 10:19 שִׁבְרִ֔י fracture my

Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

Jeremiah 14:17 שֶׁ֨בֶר a breaking

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Here: "A breaking." The word is used for a fractured bone and for the collapse of a nation. In Jeremiah it is a key word for the coming disaster that the false prophets "heal lightly" (6:14; 8:11).

Jeremiah 30:12 לְשִׁבְרֵ֑ךְ <to> fracture your

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Here: “As for your breaking.” The word means a broken bone or a collapsed nation, and Jeremiah uses it often for national ruin. The “your” is feminine: the one addressed is Zion, pictured as a wounded woman (v. 17).

Jeremiah 30:15 שִׁבְרֵ֔ךְ fracture your

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

Here: "Your breaking". It means a fracture, like a broken bone, and also a nation's collapse or a breach in its walls. The word picks up verse 12 ("incurable is your fracture") and Jeremiah's repeated phrase about "the breaking of my people." The "your" is feminine, because the people are spoken to as a woman, Daughter Zion.

Jeremiah 48:3 וָשֶׁ֥בֶר and destruction

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Jeremiah 48:5 שֶׁ֖בֶר destruction

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

Jeremiah 50:22 וְשֶׁ֖בֶר and destruction

“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.

Jeremiah 51:54 וְשֶׁ֥בֶר and destruction

“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Lamentations 2:11 שֶׁ֖בֶר [the] brokenness of

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Here: "The breaking": a shattering, like a bone fractured or a wall smashed. It is the word Jeremiah used repeatedly for the coming ruin of "the daughter of my people."

Lamentations 2:13 שִׁבְרֵ֖ךְ brokenness your

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Here: 'Your breaking.' The word covers a fractured body (a broken bone) and a shattered city and nation. It sets up the medical question that follows.

Lamentations 3:47 וְהַשָּֽׁבֶר׃ and <the> brokenness

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Lamentations 3:48 שֶׁ֖בֶר [the] brokenness of

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:10 בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר in [the] brokenness of

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Here: Shever means a breaking, a fracture, a crash: a broken bone, a wall that has given way, a nation smashed. The preposition can mean 'in/during' the destruction or 'because of' it. Both fit: it is the time it happened and the condition that caused it.

Ezekiel 32:9 שִׁבְרְךָ֙ breaking your

‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries you do not know.

Amos 6:6 שֵׁ֥בֶר [the] ruin of

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

Here: 'The fracture of'. The word is used for a broken bone and for a nation's collapse. The nation is pictured as a body with a broken limb.

Nahum 3:19 לְשִׁבְרֶ֔ךָ for fracture your

There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

Zephaniah 1:10 וְשֶׁ֥בֶר and a crashing

On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

Here: 'And a breaking'. The word means both the crash of things being smashed (walls, houses) and the disaster itself. Because it follows 'sound of', the crash you can hear is in the foreground.