שָׁבַר shavar

Hebrew word for “to buy grain” · Strong’s H7666 · used 21 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

1) to buy or purchase grain; 1a) (Qal) to buy grain; 1b) (Hiphil) to sell grain; Aramaic equivalent: ze.van (זְבַן "to buy" H2084)

How it is translated

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

• buy grain 6
• buy 6
• will buy 2
• bought grain 1
• one who sold grain 1
• buying grain 1
• will sell 1
• one who sells grain 1
• may sell grain 1
• will sell grain 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 42 (6), Genesis 43 (4), Genesis 41 (2), Deuteronomy 2 (2), Amos 8 (2), Genesis 44 (1), Genesis 47 (1), Proverbs 11 (1), Isaiah 55 (1)

Forms

• לשׁבר 7
• שׁברו 4
• וישׁבר 1
• ושׁברו 1
• המשׁביר 1
• ונשׁברה 1
• שׁברים 1
• תשׁברו 1
• תשׁברני 1
• משׁביר 1

Words used with it

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

• אֹכֶל okhel “food” 9
• שֶׁבֶר shever “grain” 4
• בַּר bar “grain” 4
• יוֹסֵף yoseph “Joseph” 6
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 6
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 6
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 5
• רָעָב raav “famine” 3
• כְּנַעַן kenaan “Canaan” 3
• אָח ach “brother” 4
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 4
• נוּ nu “us” 3

Key verses

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

• Genesis 41:56 — And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of…
• Genesis 41:57 — And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
• Genesis 42:2 — And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
• Genesis 42:5 — And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 42:6 — And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before…
• Genesis 42:7 — And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they…
• Genesis 42:10 — And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
• Genesis 43:2 — And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
• Proverbs 11:26 — He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
• Isaiah 55:1 — Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without…
• Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and…
• Amos 8:6 — That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

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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.