שָׁבַר
sha.var
1. to break, break in pieces
a. (Qal)
1. break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench
2. to break, rupture (fig)
b. (Niphal)
1. to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked
2. to be broken, be crushed (fig)
c. (Piel) to shatter, break
d. (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth
e. (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered
Aramaic equivalent: te.var (תְּבַר "to break" H8406)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 142 verses
- Genesis 19:9 לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר
“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
- Exodus 9:25 שִׁבֵּֽר׃
Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
- Exodus 12:46 תִשְׁבְּרוּ־
It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
- Exodus 22:10 נִשְׁבַּ֥ר
If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching,
- Exodus 22:14 וְנִשְׁבַּ֣ר
If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.
- Exodus 23:24 וְשַׁבֵּ֥רתְּשַׁבֵּ֖ר
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
- Exodus 32:19 וַיְשַׁבֵּ֥ר
As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
- Exodus 34:1 שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 34:13 תְּשַׁבֵּר֑וּן
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- Leviticus 6:28 יִשָּׁבֵ֑ר
The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
- Leviticus 11:33 תִשְׁבֹּֽרוּ׃
If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
- Leviticus 15:12 יִשָּׁבֵ֑ר
Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
- Leviticus 26:13 וָאֶשְׁבֹּר֙
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
- Leviticus 26:19 וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
- Leviticus 26:26 בְּשִׁבְרִ֣י
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Numbers 9:12 יִשְׁבְּרוּ־
they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 תְּשַׁבֵּ֑רוּ
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
- Deuteronomy 9:17 וָאֲשַׁבְּרֵ֖ם
So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 10:2 שִׁבַּ֑רְתָּ
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”
- Deuteronomy 12:3 וְשִׁבַּרְתֶּם֙
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
- Judges 7:20 וַיִּשְׁבְּר֣וּ
The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”
- 1 Samuel 4:18 וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֤ר
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Kings 13:26 וַֽיִּשְׁבְּרֵ֙הוּ֙
When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
- 1 Kings 13:28 שָׁבַ֖ר
and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
- 1 Kings 19:11 וּמְשַׁבֵּ֤ר
Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
- 1 Kings 22:48 נִשְׁבְּרָה
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
- 2 Kings 11:18 שִׁבְּר֣וּ
So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 18:4 וְשִׁבַּר֙
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
- 2 Kings 23:14 וְשִׁבַּר֙
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
- 2 Kings 25:13 שִׁבְּר֣וּ
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 14:3 וַיְשַׁבֵּר֙
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13 נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ
Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder
- 2 Chronicles 20:37 וַיִּשָּׁבְר֣וּ
Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works.” So the ships were wrecked and were unable to sail to Tarshish.
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ
So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
- 2 Chronicles 31:1 וַיְשַׁבְּר֣וּ
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 שִׁבַּ֣ר
Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- Job 24:20 וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֖ר
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
- Job 29:17 וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָה
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- Job 31:22 תִשָּׁבֵֽר׃
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
- Job 38:10 וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
- Job 38:15 תִּשָּׁבֵֽר׃
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- Psalms 3:7 שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 10:15 שְׁ֭בֹר
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- Psalms 29:5 שֹׁבֵ֣רוַיְשַׁבֵּ֥ר
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 34:18 לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי־
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- Psalms 34:20 נִשְׁבָּֽרָה׃
He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
- Psalms 37:15 תִּשָּׁבַֽרְנָה׃
But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
- Psalms 37:17 תִּשָּׁבַ֑רְנָה
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- Psalms 46:9 יְ֭שַׁבֵּר
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
- Psalms 48:7 תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗ר
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.