מִשְׁבָּרmishbâr

breaker, of sea (Psalms 93:4; 2 Samuel 22:5; Psalms 18:5; Psalms 88:8; Psalms 42:8)

Pronunciation: mish-bawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4867

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 22:5 “The waves of death overwhelmed me; floods of destruction swept over me.
  • Psalms 42:7 I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
  • Psalms 88:7 Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
  • Psalms 93:4 But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore— the Lord above is mightier than these!
  • Jonah 2:3 You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).