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title: שָׂבַר — inspect · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׂבַר (lemma:שָׂבַר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: inspect. BDB 1906: vb. inspect, examine. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׂבַר

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«שָׂבַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **inspect** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:שָׂבַר · **BDB:** שָׂבַר

### Glosses

examining (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

inspect [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. inspect, examine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. inspect, examine (van d. H. שֹׁבֵר \[so 𝔊 συντρίβων\], but Mas. שׂ׳ v. Norzi; hence connex. with Arabic سَبَرَ probe a wound, try, examine, improb., and this (according to Frä261) denom. from Aramaic loan-word; improb. also is connex. with Aramaic סְבַר think (cf. foll.), KauAram. im AT, 85);— Pt. שֹׂבֵר, c. ב obj., Ne 2:13, 15 I examined into the wall, inspected it closely.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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 «שָׂבַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5d1_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 2:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.15/)

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וָאֱהִ֨י עֹלֶ֤ה בַנַּ֙חַל֙ לַ֔יְלָה וָאֱהִ֥י שֹׂבֵ֖ר בַּחוֹמָ֑ה וָאָשׁ֗וּב וָאָב֛וֹא בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַגַּ֖יְא וָאָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* and I.was going.up in the wadi night and I.was examining (on) the wall and I.turned.back and I.went in the.gate of the.valley and I.returned

*JPS 1917:* Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

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[Nehemiah 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.13/)

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וָאֵצְאָ֨ה בְשַֽׁעַר־הַגַּ֜יא לַ֗יְלָה וְאֶל־פְּנֵי֙ עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין עֵ֣ינ הַתַּנִּ֔ין וְאֶל־שַׁ֖עַר הָאַשְׁפֹּ֑ת וָאֱהִ֨י שֹׂבֵ֜ר בְּחוֹמֹ֤ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ אֲשֶׁר־הֵ֣ם ׀ פְּרוּצִ֔ים וּשְׁעָרֶ֖יהָ אֻכְּל֥וּ בָאֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and I went.out by the.gate of the.valley night and to the.face of the.Well.of.the.Dragons and to the.gate of the.dung and I.was examining (on).the walls of.Jerusalem which they \[were\].broken.down and gates its they.had.been.consumed by (the) fire

*JPS 1917:* And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

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