שָׁבַר shavar

Hebrew word for “to break” · Strong’s H7665 · used 147 times in 142 verses

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Meaning

1) to break, break in pieces;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shavar in context, with how often each is used:

• will break 24
• broken 18
• broke 16
• will be broken 15
• shattered 5
• has been broken 5
• break 4
• has broken 4
• broke in pieces 3
• when break i 3
• have broken 3
• people broken 3

Where it is used

Also in 12 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 28 (6), Ezekiel 30 (5), Jeremiah 48 (4), Daniel 8 (4), Daniel 11 (4), Leviticus 26 (3), Isaiah 14 (3), Ezekiel 6 (3), Ezekiel 34 (3), Exodus 22 (2)

Forms

• שׁבר 13
• ישׁבר 9
• תשׁבר 8
• נשׁברה 8
• ושׁברתי 7
• נשׁבר 6
• וישׁבר 6
• אשׁבר 6
• ושׁבר 5
• שׁברת 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shavar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גָּדַע gada “to cut down/off” 10
• מַצֵּבָה matstsevah “pillar” 9
• עֹל ol “yoke” 9
• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 8
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 12
• מוֹטָה motah “yoke” 6
• בָּבֶל bavel “Babylon” 10
• זְרוֹעַ zeroa “arm” 8
• נָתַץ natats “to tear” 7
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 10
• הֶם hem “them” 13
• בְּרִיחַ beriach “bar” 6

Key verses

The verses using shavar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 19:11 — And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in…
• 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the…
• Psalms 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• Proverbs 29:1 — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Isaiah 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that…
• Isaiah 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to…
• Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no…
• Jeremiah 2:20 — For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou…
• Jeremiah 14:17 — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is…
• Ezekiel 6:9 — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which…
• Ezekiel 34:16 — I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:…
• Hosea 2:18 — And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.