she.ver denotes destructive ruin, bodily fracture or injury, and, in some clauses, a broken condition affecting a person or spirit.

The noun most often marks destructive ruin or devastation in announcements of disaster and lament over a people or land. It also names a fracture or grievous wound, and a smaller group of clauses applies it to a broken personal condition, including the spirit.

1. Destructive ruin and devastation · dominant

   In Jeremiah 4:20, two absolute singular forms stand in the proclamation “Breaking upon breaking,” followed by the devastation of the whole land. Isaiah 60:18 places the absolute form beside violence and devastation within the land’s borders, while Lamentations 3:47 includes it in the pair “the devastation and the breaking.” In Isaiah 30:14, the construct form is illustrated by a potter’s vessel smashed so thoroughly that no useful fragment remains.

   Jeremiah 4:20Isaiah 60:18Lamentations 3:47Isaiah 30:14Jeremiah 50:22Zephaniah 1:10
2. Fracture, wound, or injury · common

   In Leviticus 21:19, construct forms occur in the description of a man with a broken foot or hand; Leviticus 24:20 likewise sets the term in the recompense formula “Fracture for fracture.” Jeremiah 30:12 and Jeremiah 30:15 use construct forms in clauses that call the person’s breaking incurable and pair it with a grievous wound or pain.

   Leviticus 21:19Leviticus 24:20Jeremiah 30:12Jeremiah 30:15Nahum 3:19Lamentations 2:13
3. Broken personal condition · occasional

   Isaiah 65:14 uses a construct form in the clause about wailing “from a broken spirit,” contrasting that cry with the servants’ gladness of heart. Jeremiah 10:19 speaks in the first person of “my brokenness” alongside a weak wound, and Proverbs 15:4 locates the effect in the spirit when speech is crooked.

   Isaiah 65:14Jeremiah 10:19Proverbs 15:4Jeremiah 8:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the noun with “breaking,” “shattering,” “destruction,” “crash,” “fracture,” and “brokenness.” These are verse-level renderings rather than a fixed English equivalent for each occurrence.