שֶׁבֶרsheber
corn, grain, as food stuff, perhaps broken, i.e.
Pronunciation: sheh'-ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7668
Meanings
threshed (Nehemiah 10:32; Genesis 42:1; Genesis 42:19; Genesis 42:26; Genesis 44:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 42:1 When Jacob heard that grain was available in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you standing around looking at one another?
- 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 42:19 If you really are honest men, choose one of your brothers to remain in prison. The rest of you may go home with grain for your starving families.
- Genesis 42:26 So the brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain and headed for home.
- Genesis 43:2 When the grain they had brought from Egypt was almost gone, Jacob said to his sons, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- Genesis 44:2 Then put my personal silver cup at the top of the youngest brother’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” So the manager did as Joseph instructed him.
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).