Occurrences
Sheber occurs 9 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (7), Nehemiah (1), Amos (1)
- Genesis 42:1 — Now when Jacob saw that there was corn (שֶׁ֖בֶר) in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
- Genesis 42:2 — And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn (שֶׁ֖בֶר) in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; 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 (שֶׁ֖בֶר) for the famine of your houses:
- Genesis 42:26 — And they laded their asses with the corn (שִׁבְרָ֖ם), and departed thence.
- Genesis 43:2 — And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn (הַשֶּׁ֔בֶר) which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 44:2 — And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn (שִׁבְר֑וֹ) money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- 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 (בַּשֶּׁ֖בֶר) which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
- Nehemiah 10:31 — And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals (שֶׁ֜בֶר) 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.
- Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn (שֶּׁ֔בֶר)? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?