שָׁבַר
sha.var
“to buy grain”
Definition
to deal in grain
denominative from H7668 (שֶׁבֶר);
- to buy or purchase grain 1a) (Qal) to buy grain 1b) (Hiphil) to sell grain Aramaic equivalent: ze.van (*זְבַן *"to buy" H2084)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
שָׁבַר appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
asking, “When will the New Moon be over,that we may sell grain?When will the Sabbath end,that we may market wheat?Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel;let us cheat with dishonest scales.
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.