שֶׁבֶר I, break, fracture. Sabb. XXII, 6 אין מחזירין את הש׳ you must not set a fracture (on the Sabbath). T’bul Yom IV, 7 שלום מן הש׳ וכ׳ (he meant) that it will be brought up in safety without being broken and without being spilt; Y. Ter. II, 41ᶜ top; a. e.—Trnsf. destruction, calamity. Gen. R. s. 91 (play on שֶׁבֶר, Gen. XLII, 1, a. סֵבֶר) כי יש ש׳ זה הרעב כי יש סבר זה השבע וכ׳ ‘that there is a calamity’, that means the famine; ‘that there is brightness’, that means plenty &c. Ib. והלא כבר נאמר ותרעב … יש ש׳ has it not been said before, ‘and all the land of Egypt was hungry’? what is meant by ‘there is a calamity in Egypt’? &c. Pesik. Vattom., p. 129ᵇ (not שכר); Yalk. Ps. 816, v. שָׁבַר I; a. e.—Pl. שְׁבָרִים, constr. שִׁבְרֵי. Gen. R. s. 30 (ref. to Job XII, 5) שהיו מוכנים לשני ש׳ לשבר מלמעלן וכ׳ they were predestined for two calamities, for destruction from above (rain), and for destruction from below (rise of the deeps). Ex. R. s. 18, v. שָׁבַר I. Kel. XI, 3, a. fr. שברי כלים fragments of vessels, broken vessels. B. Bath. 14ᵇ שברי לוחות the tablets broken by Moses. Ber. 8ᵇ הזהרו בזקן … לוחות ושברי וכ׳ be careful not to despise an old man that has forgotten his learning through no fault of his, for we are told, the (whole) tablets and the broken ones were deposited in the Ark; Men. 99ᵃ; a. fr.
שֶׁבֶר I, a broken ejaculation, sigh, esp. the broken disconnected sounds produced on the Shofar. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ top (play on אֵד, Gen. II, 6) עלה ש׳ מלמטן וכ׳ when the broken tune (at the prayer meeting) rises from below, at once the rain comes down.—Pl. as ab. R. Hash. 34ᵃ שיעור תרועה כשלשה ש׳ the value of a t’ruʿah (a succession of tremulous sounds) is equal to three sh’barim. Ib. אתקין … שלשה ש׳ תרועה וכ׳ R. Abbahu introduced in Cæsaræa (for the New Year’s Day) the blowing of a t’ḳiʿah (a succession of connected notes), three sh’barim, a tr’uʿah, and a t’ḳi‘ah; a. e.
