מִשְׁבָּר
mishbâr · H4867 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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breaker, wave
Water taking on a curly shape as a result of the wind moving over its surface; mostly used in a figurative sense to denote human suffering
Examples2 Samuel 22:5 “For the waves of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction terrified me;
Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
Psalm 88:7 Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- ךָyour 3
- יָםsea 1
- מָוֶתdeath 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָבַרto pass 2
- אָפַףto surround 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַדִּירmighty 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- גַּל gal · H1530 · wave, heap (of stones)
- A distinct Hebrew lexeme meaning wave or billow, often used in poetic parallelism with מִשְׁבָּר (e.g., Psalm 42:7, 'all your waves [מִשְׁבָּר] and your billows [גַּל]'), genuinely interchangeable in contexts describing sea waves.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κῦμα kŷma · G2949 · wave, billow, surge
- The standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew מִשְׁבָּר in contexts describing waves or billows of the sea (e.g., Psalm 42:7, 88:7). Both denote the physical phenomenon of sea waves.
- κλύδων klýdōn · G2830 · wave, billow, surge
- An alternative Greek term for wave or surge that could serve as a translation equivalent for מִשְׁבָּר, though κῦμα is more commonly attested in LXX renderings of this Hebrew term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Shape002001001052
- The word denotes a billow or wave, a distinctive rising and curving form of water.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4867. mishbar [מִשְׁבָּר] noun [masculine] breaker, of sea; — plural construct…
[מִשְׁבָּר] noun [masculine] breaker, of sea; — plural construct מִשְׁבְּרֵייָֿם Psa 93:4 (|| רַבִּים מַיִם קֹלוֺת; in compare of ׳יs majesty); figurative of calamities, מִשְׁבְּרֵימָֿוֶת 2Sa 22:5 (חֶבְלֵימָֿוֶת in || Psa 18:5); as sent by מִשְׁבָּרֶיךָ ׳י, Psa 88:8, ׳מ וְגַלֶּיךָ Psa 42:8; Jon 2:4. — Job 41:17 see שֶׁבֶר. above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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