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Words
שָׁבַר H7666
- Home gloss
- buy rations (qal)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- buy corn / buy grain
- Note
- A verb made from שֶׁבֶר, grain doled out (42:1–2), and a homograph of שָׁבַר "break." The qal is the buyer's (41:57; 42:2–3); at 41:56 its subject is Joseph, the seller: see the note there. The hiphil (42:6) is fixed when reached
- Rulings
- 20
- Declared to share English with
- H7668 — one root: buy rations / rations (135s)
- H4376 — false clash (135a): sell rations / sell
Occurrences (14)
- 41:56 And the hunger was over all the face of the land. And Joseph opened all that was in them, and let Egypt buy rations; and the hunger was strong in the land of Egypt.
- 41:57 And all the land came to Egypt to buy rations, to Joseph; for the hunger was strong in all the land.
- 42:2 And he said, "Look, I have heard that there are rations in Egypt. Go down there and buy rations for us from there, and let us live and not die."
- 42:3 And the brothers of Joseph went down, ten, to buy rations of corn from Egypt.
- 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy rations in the middle of the comers, for the hunger was in the land of Canaan.
- 42:6 And Joseph—he was the potentate over the land; he was the seller of rations to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and prostrated themselves to him, nostrils to the land.
- 42:7 And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, and he made himself foreign to them, and spoke with them hard things, and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy rations of food."
- 42:10 And they said to him, "No, my lord; and your servants have come to buy rations of food.
- 43:2 And it was, when they had finished eating the rations that they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, "Return, buy rations for us, a little food."
- 43:4 If you are sending our brother with us, we will go down and buy rations for you, food.
- 43:20 and they said, "Oh, my lord, going down we went down at the start to buy rations of food.
- 43:22 And other silver we have brought down in our hand to buy rations of food. We do not know who put our silver in our packs."
- 44:25 And our father said, 'Return, buy rations for us, a little food.'
- 47:14 And Joseph gleaned all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the rations that they were buying; and Joseph brought the silver into the house of Pharaoh.