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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: breaking, breach
= causative action or process by which humans or deities cause an object to be broken into two or more pieces; ≈ sometimes use figuratively to denote the sudden end of a certain condition or situation
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: injury, fracture
literally: to break; hence: = causative action or process by which humans, deities, animals, or circumstances cause (other) humans or animals to be severely injured
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 5 (5 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: to break (someone's) spirit > to cause profound grief
literally: breaking of (someone's) spirit; hence: = causative process by which deities or circumstances cause humans to suffer profound grief
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: interpretation
literally: breaking; hence: = action by which humans explain the meaning of an event that is hard to interpret, such as a dream
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: crashing sound
literally: (sound of) breaking; hence: = process by which a loud sound is heard, ◄ which is experienced as similar to the sound of something breaking
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 6: disaster, destruction
literally: breaking; hence: = causative action by which humans, deities, or circumstances take away peace from a community by causing destruction, death, and suffering
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-06Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 31 (31 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 7: grain
= the kernels of wheat, barley and other grain products left over after harvesting and threshing, ready to be sold on the market, processed, and eaten
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-07Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 9 (9 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: Sheber
= man; ◄ son of Caleb and his concubine Maacah ; brother of Tirhanah ; tribe of Judah
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-007152-08Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON No exact site Strong's mapping is available for this lemma. Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-007152Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
