שֶׁבֶרsheber

corn, grain, as food stuff, perhaps broken, i.e.

Pronunciation: sheh'-ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7668

Meanings

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.
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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).