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Lexicon :: Strong's H4929 - mišmār

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מִשְׁמָר
Transliteration
mišmār
Pronunciation
mish-mawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2414f

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁמָר mishmâr, mish-mawr'; from H8104; a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely):—diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H4929 in the following manner: ward (12x), watch (4x), guard (3x), diligence (1x), offices (1x), prison (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H4929 in the following manner: ward (12x), watch (4x), guard (3x), diligence (1x), offices (1x), prison (1x).

  1. place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observance

    1. jail, prison, guard-house

    2. guard, guard post, act of guarding

    3. observances

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁמָר mishmâr, mish-mawr'; from H8104; a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely):—diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
STRONGS H4929: Abbreviations
† מִשְׁמָר noun [masculine] place of confinement, goal, prison; late, guard, watch, observance; — absolute מ׳ Genesis 42:17 +; construct מִשְׁמַר Genesis 40:3 +; suffix מִשְׁמָרוֺ Nehemiah 7:3, etc.; plural suffix רָיו - Nehemiah 13:14; —
1. goal, prison, בֵּית שַׂר הַטַּבָּחִים מ׳ Genesis 40:3, compare Genesis 40:4 (absolute), Genesis 40:7; Genesis 41:10; Genesis 42:17 (absolute), + Genesis 42:30 (Greek Version of the LXX), בֵּית מִשְׁמַרְכֶם Genesis 42:19 (all E); guard-house in camp Leviticus 24:12 (H), Numbers 15:34 (P).
2. guard, Jeremiah 51:12; Nehemiah 4:3; Nehemiah 4:16, אַנְשֵׁי הַמּ׳ Nehemiah 4:17; guard-post Nehemiah 7:3; figurative of י׳ setting a guard, כִּי תָשִׂים עָלַימ׳ Job 7:12; band of (Levitical) guards or functionaries 1 Chronicles 26:16; Nehemiah 12:24 (compare מִשְׁמֶרֶת); act of guarding, מִכָּלמֿ׳ Proverbs 4:23 above all guarding watch thy heart. — לְמ׳ Ezekiel 38:7 is doubtful, Hi Co Toy and others reserve; Krae לְמשֵׁל.
3. plural observances, services, of temple Nehemiah 13:14.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

40:3; 40:3; 40:4; 40:7; 41:10; 42:17; 42:17; 42:19; 42:30

Leviticus

24:12

Numbers

15:34

1 Chronicles

26:16

Nehemiah

4:3; 4:16; 4:17; 7:3; 7:3; 12:24; 13:14; 13:14

Job

7:12

Proverbs

4:23

Jeremiah

51:12

Ezekiel

38:7

H4929

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4929 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁמָר (mišmār),
which occurs 22 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - and he put them in custody into the house of the captain of the life-guard, into the tower-house, into the place where Joseph was imprisoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - And the captain of the life-guard appointed Joseph to them, that he should attend on them. And they were several days in custody.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - And he asked Pharaoh's chamberlains that were with him in custody in his lord's house, saying, Why are your faces so sad to-day?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:10 - Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:17 - And he put them in custody three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:12 - And they confined him, that they might decide at the mouth of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - And they put him in custody, for it was not declared what should be done to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:16 - To Shuppim and Hosah westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the ascent, watch against watch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:9 - Then we prayed to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:22 - Likewise at the same time I said to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and be for labour in the day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:23 - And neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our garments: every one had his weapon on his right side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:3 - And I said to them that the gates of Jerusalem should not be opened until the sun was hot, and that they should shut the doors and bar them while they stood by; and that there should be appointed watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one over against his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:24 - And the chief Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were doorkeepers keeping the ward at the storehouses of the gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:14 - Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the charges thereof!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:23 - Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:12 - Lift up a banner towards the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:7 - Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself thou, and all thine assemblage that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
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