1) to break, break in pieces 1a) (Qal) 1a1) break, break in or down, rend violently, wreck, crush, quench 1a2) to break, rupture (fig) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be broken, be maimed, be crippled, be wrecked 1b2) to be broken, be crushed (fig) 1c) (Piel) to shatter, break 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to break out, bring to the birth 1e) (Hophal) to be broken, be shattered Aramaic equivalent: te.var (תְּבַר "to break" H8406)
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H7665 — שָׁבַר
sha.var · to break · Hebrew/Aramaic
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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 · נִשְׁבַּ֥רIf 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 · וְנִשְׁבַּ֣רIf 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 · וְשַׁבֵּ֥ר · תְּשַׁבֵּ֖רYou 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 · וַיְשַׁבֵּ֥רAs 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 · תְּשַׁבֵּר֑וּןRather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.Leviticus 6:28 · יִשָּׁבֵ֑רThe 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 · יִשָּׁבֵ֑רAny clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.Leviticus 26:13 · וָאֶשְׁבֹּר֙I 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 · וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖יI will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,Leviticus 26:26 · בְּשִׁבְרִ֣יWhen 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 · תְּשַׁבֵּ֑רוּInstead, 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 · וָאֲשַׁבְּרֵ֖םSo I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.Deuteronomy 10:2 · שִׁבַּ֑רְתָּAnd 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 · וְשִׁבַּרְתֶּם֙Tear 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 · וַיִּשְׁבְּר֣וּThe 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 · וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֤רAs 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 · וַֽיִּשְׁבְּרֵ֙הוּ֙When 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 · שָׁבַ֖רand 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 · וּמְשַׁבֵּ֤רThen 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 · נִשְׁבְּר֥וּJehoshaphat 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 · שִׁבְּר֣וּSo 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 · וְשִׁבַּר֙He 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 · וְשִׁבַּר֙He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.2 Kings 25:13 · שִׁבְּר֣וּMoreover, 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 · וַיְשַׁבֵּר֙He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.2 Chronicles 14:13 · נִשְׁבְּר֥וּThen 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 plunder2 Chronicles 20:37 · וַיִּשָּׁבְר֣וּThen 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 · שִׁבֵּ֑רוּSo 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 · וַיְשַׁבְּר֣וּWhen 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 · שִׁבַּ֣רThen 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 · וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֖רThe womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.Job 29:17 · וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָהI 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 · וָאֶשְׁבֹּ֣רwhen 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.Psalm 3:7 · שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.Psalm 10:15 · שְׁ֭בֹרBreak the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.Psalm 29:5 · שֹׁבֵ֣ר · וַיְשַׁבֵּ֥רThe voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.Psalm 34:18 · לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי־The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.Psalm 34:20 · נִשְׁבָּֽרָה׃He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.Psalm 37:15 · תִּשָּׁבַֽרְנָה׃But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.Psalm 37:17 · תִּשָּׁבַ֑רְנָהFor the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.Psalm 46:9 · יְ֭שַׁבֵּרHe makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.Psalm 48:7 · תְּ֝שַׁבֵּ֗רWith a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.Psalm 51:17 · נִשְׁבָּ֫רָ֥ה · נִשְׁבָּ֥רThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.Psalm 69:20 · שָֽׁבְרָ֥הInsults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.Psalm 74:13 · שִׁבַּ֖רְתָּYou divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;Psalm 76:3 · שִׁבַּ֣רThere He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. SelahPsalm 104:11 · יִשְׁבְּר֖וּThey give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.Psalm 105:16 · שָׁבָֽר׃He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.Psalm 105:33 · וַ֝יְשַׁבֵּ֗רHe struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.Psalm 107:16 · שִׁ֭בַּרFor He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.Psalm 124:7 · נִשְׁבָּ֗רWe have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.Psalm 147:3 · לִשְׁב֣וּרֵיHe heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.Proverbs 6:15 · יִ֝שָּׁבֵ֗רTherefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.Proverbs 25:15 · תִּשְׁבָּר־Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.Proverbs 29:1 · יִ֝שָּׁבֵ֗רA man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.Ecclesiastes 12:6 · וְתִשָּׁ֤בֶרRemember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,Isaiah 8:15 · וְנִשְׁבָּ֔רוּMany will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”Isaiah 14:5 · שָׁבַ֥רThe LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.Isaiah 14:25 · לִשְׁבֹּ֤רI will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”Isaiah 14:29 · נִשְׁבַּ֖רDo not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.Isaiah 21:9 · שִׁבַּ֥רLook, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”Isaiah 24:10 · נִשְׁבְּרָ֖הThe city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.Isaiah 27:11 · תִּשָּׁבַ֔רְנָהWhen its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.Isaiah 28:13 · וְנִשְׁבָּ֔רוּThen the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.Isaiah 30:14 · וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּIt will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”Isaiah 38:13 · יְשַׁבֵּ֖רI composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.Isaiah 42:3 · יִשְׁבּ֔וֹרA bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.Isaiah 45:2 · אֲשַׁבֵּ֔ר“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.Isaiah 61:1 · לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי־The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,Isaiah 66:9 · אַשְׁבִּ֛ירShall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” says the LORD. “Or will I who deliver close the womb?” says your God.Jeremiah 2:13 · נִשְׁבָּרִ֔ים“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Jeremiah 2:20 · שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.Jeremiah 5:5 · שָׁ֣בְרוּI will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.Jeremiah 8:21 · הָשְׁבָּ֑רְתִּיFor the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.Jeremiah 14:17 · נִשְׁבְּרָ֗הYou are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.Jeremiah 17:18 · שָׁבְרֵֽם׃ סLet my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.Jeremiah 19:10 · וְשָׁבַרְתָּ֖Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,Jeremiah 19:11 · אֶשְׁבֹּ֞ר · יִשְׁבֹּר֙and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.Jeremiah 22:20 · נִשְׁבְּר֖וּGo up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.Jeremiah 23:9 · נִשְׁבַּ֧רAs for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.Jeremiah 28:2 · שָׁבַ֞רְתִּי“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.Jeremiah 28:4 · אֶשְׁבֹּ֔רAnd I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”Jeremiah 28:10 · וַֽיִּשְׁבְּרֵֽהוּ׃Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.Jeremiah 28:11 · אֶשְׁבֹּ֞רAnd in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.Jeremiah 28:12 · שְׁב֞וֹרBut shortly after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke off his neck, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:Jeremiah 28:13 · שָׁבָ֑רְתָּ“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’Jeremiah 30:8 · אֶשְׁבֹּ֤רOn that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.Jeremiah 43:13 · וְשִׁבַּ֗רHe will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”Jeremiah 48:4 · נִשְׁבְּרָ֖הMoab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.Jeremiah 48:17 · נִשְׁבַּר֙Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!Jeremiah 48:25 · נִשְׁבָּ֑רָהThe horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 48:38 · שָׁבַ֣רְתִּיOn all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 49:35 · שֹׁבֵ֖רThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.Jeremiah 50:23 · וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔רHow the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Jeremiah 51:8 · וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑רSuddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.Jeremiah 51:30 · נִשְׁבְּר֥וּThe warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.Jeremiah 52:17 · שִׁבְּר֣וּMoreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.Lamentations 1:15 · לִשְׁבֹּ֣רThe Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.Lamentations 2:9 · וְשִׁבַּ֖רHer gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.Lamentations 3:4 · שִׁבַּ֖רHe has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.Daniel 8:7 · וַיְשַׁבֵּר֙I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.Daniel 8:8 · נִשְׁבְּרָה֙Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.Daniel 8:22 · וְהַ֨נִּשְׁבֶּ֔רֶתThe four horns that replaced the broken one represent four kingdoms that will rise from that nation but will not have the same power.Daniel 8:25 · יִשָּׁבֵֽר׃Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.Daniel 11:4 · תִּשָּׁבֵ֣רBut as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.Daniel 11:20 · יִשָּׁבֵ֔רIn his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or in battle.Daniel 11:22 · וְיִשָּׁבֵ֑רוּThen a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.Daniel 11:26 · יִשְׁבְּר֖וּהוּThose who eat from his provisions will seek to destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.Hosea 1:5 · וְשָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”Hosea 2:18 · אֶשְׁבּ֣וֹרOn that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.Amos 1:5 · וְשָֽׁבַרְתִּי֙I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the LORD.Jonah 1:4 · לְהִשָּׁבֵֽר׃Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.Nahum 1:13 · אֶשְׁבֹּ֥רFor I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”Zechariah 11:16 · וְהַנִּשְׁבֶּ֖רֶתFor behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.