שָׁבַרshâbar

buy grain

Pronunciation: shaw-bar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7666

Meanings

Qal: buy grain (Deuteronomy 2:6; Genesis 43:4; Genesis 42:2)

Hiph`il: sell grain, (properly cause to buy grain) (Amos 8:6; Genesis 42:6; Proverbs 11:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 41:56 So with severe famine everywhere, Joseph opened up the storehouses and distributed grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.
  • Genesis 41:57 And people from all around came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because the famine was severe throughout the world.
  • Genesis 42:2 I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy enough grain to keep us alive. Otherwise we’ll die.”
  • Genesis 42:3 So Joseph’s ten older brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain.
  • Genesis 42:5 So Jacob’s sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.
  • Genesis 42:6 Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.
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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).