שֵׂבֶר
sêber · H7664 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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hope
Action by which humans look forward with confidence for something to happen
ExamplesPsalm 119:116 Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live; And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
Psalm 146:5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,
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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יmy 1
- הוּhis 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 2
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 2 words
- תִּקְוָה tiqvâh · H8615 · cord, hope
- The most common Hebrew noun for 'hope' or 'expectation,' semantically overlapping with שֵׂבֶר as both denote confident expectation, though תִּקְוָה is far more frequent and broadly attested across the Hebrew Bible.
- מִבְטָח mibṭâch · H4009 · confidence, trust, secure
- The second word is a noun denoting assurance or trust, closely related to hope as confident expectation in something or someone trustworthy.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἐλπίς elpís · G1680 · to hope, to hope for, hope
- The standard Greek noun for 'hope' or 'expectation,' the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew שֵׂבֶר in contexts expressing confident expectation or hope.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Confident002001002003
- Psalm 119:116 prays, "do not let me be ashamed of my hope," and Psalm 146:5 blesses the one "whose hope is in the LORD his God," both directly attesting the confident expectation this word denotes.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7664. seber [שֵׂ֫בֶר] noun masculine hope; — suffix שִׂבְרִי Psa 119:116, עַליֿ…
[שֵׂ֫בֶר] noun masculine hope; — suffix שִׂבְרִי Psa 119:116, עַליֿ ׳שִׂבְרוֺ Psa 146:5.
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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