שֶׁבֶר shever
Hebrew word for “breaking” · Strong’s H7667 · used 45 times in 42 verses
Meaning
1) breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash, ruin, shattering;
How it is translated
Glosses given for shever in context, with how often each is used:
- fracture 12
- destruction 12
- brokenness 8
- breaking 4
- ruin 2
- interpretation 1
- crashings 1
- fractures 1
- crushing 1
- shattering 1
- like the breaking 1
- crashing 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 15 | 0.7 | |
| Isaiah | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Leviticus | 5 | 0.4 | |
| Lamentations | 5 | 3.2 | |
| Proverbs | 4 | 0.6 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 | |
| Zephaniah | 1 | 1.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 30 (3), Jeremiah 4 (2), Jeremiah 6 (2), Jeremiah 8 (2), Jeremiah 30 (2), Jeremiah 48 (2), Lamentations 2 (2), Lamentations 3 (2), Leviticus 21 (1), Leviticus 22 (1)
Forms
- שׁבר 20
- ושׁבר 9
- שׁברך 3
- והשׁבר 2
- לשׁברך 2
- שׁבור 1
- שׁברו 1
- משׁברים 1
- שׁבריה 1
- שׁברה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shever more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מַכָּה makkah “wound” 5
- גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 8
- רָפָא rapah “to heal” 5
- חָלָה chalah “be weak” 5
- שֹׁד shod “violence” 4
- בַּת bat “daughter” 7
- חֹרֹנַיִם choronayim “Horonaim” 3
- צְעָקָה tsaaqah “cry” 3
- לוּחִית luchit “Luhith” 2
- עוּז uz “to seek refuge” 2
- קוֹל qol “voice” 4
- אָנַשׁ anash “be incurable” 2
Key verses
The verses using shever that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Proverbs 16:18 — Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 18:12 — Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
- Isaiah 1:28 — And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
- Isaiah 15:5 — My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go…
- Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the…
- Isaiah 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Jeremiah 4:20 — Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 6:1 — O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem:…
- Jeremiah 6:14 — They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- 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…
- Jeremiah 30:15 — Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things…
- Lamentations 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children…
See all 42 verses in the Word Atlas
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.