Shever שֶׁ֫בֶר

Shever (Hebrew שֶׁ֫בֶר, Strong's H7668) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “grain”. It occurs 9 times in 9 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shever, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 42:1
  Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
• Genesis 42:2
  And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
• Genesis 42:19
  If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
• Genesis 42:26
  And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
• Genesis 43:2
  And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.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.”
• Genesis 44:2
  And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
• Genesis 47:14
  And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 10:31
  And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

Amos

• Amos 8:5
  Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).