mish.bar denotes waves or breakers, pictured as overwhelming forces and as the sea’s mighty breakers.

The attested use presents plural, construct-form waves or breakers: they surround in the death imagery of 2 Samuel 22:5 and are explicitly associated with the sea’s mighty breakers in Psalm 93:4. The same form occurs in Jonah 2:4, Psalm 42:8, and Psalm 88:8, though the supplied translation does not isolate its contribution there.

1. Waves or breakers in forceful imagery · dominant

   All five occurrences use a masculine plural construct form. In 2 Samuel 22:5 the APB renders the verse with “the waves of death encompassed me,” and in Psalm 93:4 it renders “the mighty breakers of the sea”; Jonah 2:4, Psalm 42:8, and Psalm 88:8 contain the same form, but their supplied APB renderings do not identify a corresponding English expression.

   2 Samuel 22:5Jonah 2:4Psalm 42:8Psalm 88:8Psalm 93:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly presents “waves” in 2 Samuel 22:5 and “breakers of the sea” in Psalm 93:4. In Jonah 2:4, Psalm 42:8, and Psalm 88:8, the supplied translation does not make the term’s specific rendering identifiable.