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title: שֶׁבֶר — corn · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׁבֶר (7668), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: corn. BDB 1906: corn, grain. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׁבֶר

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«שֶׁבֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **corn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 7668 · **BDB:** שֶׁ֫בֶר³

### Glosses

grain (7); his.grain (1); the.grain (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

corn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7668/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

corn, grain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7668/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] corn, grain, as food stuff (perhaps broken, i.e. threshed, HoffmZAW iii (1883), 122 SS Siegf Ne 10:32; \> Köii. 1, 19 n breaking out, i.e. sprouting (as chief fruit of soil); hence NH שִׁבָּרוֹן price of corn);—שׁ׳ abs. Gn 42:1 +; cstr. v 19; sf. שִׁבְרָם v 26, שִׁבְרוֹ 44:2;—corn, grain 42:1, 2, 19, 26; 43:2; 44:2; 47:14 (acc. cogn.), Am 8:5 (id.); so perhaps (for בָּר) Gn 42:3 LagBN 230; כָּל־שׁ׳ Ne 10:32 all kinds of grain.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׁבֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7668/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 42:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.26/)

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וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ אֶת־שִׁבְרָ֖ם עַל־חֲמֹרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ מִשָּֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and they.lifted (et) grain their on donkeys their and they.went from there

*JPS 1917:* And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.

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[Genesis 42:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.1/)

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וַיַּ֣רְא יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יַעֲקֹב֙ לְבָנָ֔יו לָ֖מָּה תִּתְרָאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw Jacob (dm).that there.\[was\] grain in Egypt and he.said Jacob to sons his why? are.you.looking.at.one.another

*JPS 1917:* Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons: 'Why do ye look one upon another?'

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