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Lexicon :: Strong's H4940 - mišpāḥâ

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מִשְׁפָּחָה
Transliteration
mišpāḥâ
Pronunciation
mish-paw-khaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2442b

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpâchâh, mish-paw-khaw'; from H8192 (compare H8198); a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people:—family, kind(-red).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 301x

The KJV translates Strong's H4940 in the following manner: families (290x), kindred (9x), kinds (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 301x
The KJV translates Strong's H4940 in the following manner: families (290x), kindred (9x), kinds (2x).

  1. clan, family

    1. clan

      1. family

      2. tribe

      3. people, nation

    2. guild

    3. species, kind

    4. aristocrats

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpâchâh, mish-paw-khaw'; from H8192 (compare H8198); a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people:—family, kind(-red).
STRONGS H4940: Abbreviations
מִשְׁפָּחָה 303 noun feminine clan (RSSemitic 1. 258, 2nd ed. 276; K 149, 2nd ed. 175 BaNB § 161 a); — absolute מ׳ Amos 3:1 +; construct מִשְׁפַּ֫חַת Judges 9:1 +; suffix מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי Genesis 24:38 +, etc.; plural מִשְׁפָּחוֹת Nahum 3:4 +; construct מִשְׁפְּחוֹת Amos 3:2 +; suffix מִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיהֶם Genesis 8:19 + 2 times, usually תָם - Numbers 1:18 + 84 times, etc.; —
1. clan:
a. family connection of individual Genesis 24:38 (+ בֵּיתאָֿבִי), Genesis 24:40 (+ id.), Genesis 24:41 (all J; = מוֺלַדְתִּי Genesis 24:4), 2 Samuel 14:7, united in sacrifice 1 Samuel 20:6, 29, in passover Exodus 12:21 (J E; compare BenzEncy.Bib. PASSOVER, §§ 9, 12); compare Leviticus 20:5 (H), Leviticus 25:10, 41 (P), Leviticus 25:49 (P; defined as מִשְּׁאֵר בְּשָׂרוֺ), non-Hebrew Leviticus 25:47 (H), Leviticus 25:45(P), Judges 1:25; מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיהָ Joshua 6:23 (E or R) is unintelligible, probably strike out (compare Steuern Holz; בֵּית אָבִיהָ in Joshua 6:25 [J]), compare Numbers 27:4, 11 (P); בֵּית אֲבִי אִמּוֺ מ׳ Judges 9:1 clan of his mother's father-house; including individuals, and included by שֵׁבֶט 1 Samuel 9:21 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:21; with specific name, in series גֶבֶר, בַּיִת, מ׳, שֵׁבֶט Joshua 7:14 (twice in verse); Joshua 7:17b, Joshua 7:17c (all J; Joshua 7:17a read plural Di Benn, or שֵׁבֶט GFMJudges 13:2; Steuern allows either); compare Deuteronomy 29:17; Judges 21:24, אָבִי בְּיִשׂ׳ מ׳ 1 Samuel 1:18 (+ חַיַּי, see II [חַי]; בֵּיתשָֿׁאוּל אִישׁמִ֗֗֗מּ׳ 2 Samuel 16:5; with name also Ruth 2:1, 3and (non-Israel) Job 32:2.
b. in loose, popular sense= tribe, Judges 13:2; Judges 17:7; Judges 18:19, compare Judges 18:2 (|| שֵׁבֶט Judges 18:1), Judges 18:11 (yet in these two read possibly plural, see GFM).
c. technical divisions of people of Israel Numbers 11:10 (J) Jeremiah 2:4; Jeremiah 31:1; compare Jeremiah 3:14; Numbers 1:2, 18; Numbers 2:34; Numbers 33:54 (all P), so (post-exilic) Nehemiah 4:7: Esther 9:28 (מְדִינָה, מ׳, דּוֺר).
d. usually (P) technical divisions of tribes of Israel, Exodus 6:14, 15, 25; Numbers 3:15 112 times Numbers (93 times Numbers 26, including Numbers 3:43 where הַשּׁוּחָמִי apparently = Dan), + 34 times Joshua 13-21; also 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 6:45; 1 Chronicles 7:5; Zechariah 12:13; division of Gershom, etc. (in Levi) Numbers 3:18, 19, 20 + 41 times Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Chronicles; subdivisions of these divisions (in Levi) Numbers 3:21 (twice in verse) + 6 times Numbers 3 + Numbers 4:18; compare (in other tribes) 1 Chronicles 2:53; 1 Chronicles 4:2, 8, 21, 27, 38; 1 Chronicles 5:7; also Zechariah 12:12b Zechariah 12:12c Zechariah 12:13b Zechariah 12:14a, and (distributive) Zechariah 12:12a Zechariah 12:14b, pleonastic מַטֵּה אֲבִיהֶם מ׳ Numbers 36:6 compare Numbers 36:8, and (א׳ מַטֵּה מ׳) Numbers 36:12.
e. late, divinity of other peoples 1 Chronicles 16:28 = Psalm 96:7; Psalm 22:28; in Edom Genesis 36:40 (P).
f. in wider sense=people, nation; תָאֲדָמָה מִשְׁפְּחֹת כֹּל Amos 3:2; Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14 (both J), compare Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 20:32; Nahum 3:4 (all || גּוֺיִם), Zechariah 14:17; Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 25:9; as one's posterity Genesis 10:30, 31, 32 (all P), so probably Genesis 10:5 (P; Di Dr); = all Israel Amos 3:1, Judah Micah 2:3; Jeremiah 8:3 (הָרָעָה הַזּאֹת הַמּ׳), Israel + Judah, שְׁתֵּי הַמּ׳ Jeremiah 33:24; מִצְרַיִם מִשְׁפַּחַת Zechariah 14:18; compare Psalm 107:41.
†2. = guild 1 Chronicles 2:55 (of scribes; originally hereditary in families).
†3. = species, kind:
a. of judgments Jeremiah 15:3.
b. animals Genesis 8:19 (P).
†4. plural = aristocrats Job 31:34 (compare English 'the classes').
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:19; 8:19; 10:5; 10:30; 10:31; 10:32; 12:3; 24:4; 24:38; 24:38; 24:40; 24:41; 28:14; 36:40

Exodus

6:14; 6:15; 6:25; 12:21

Leviticus

20:5; 25:10; 25:41; 25:45; 25:47; 25:49

Numbers

1:2; 1:18; 1:18; 2:34; 3; 3:1; 3:15; 3:18; 3:19; 3:20; 3:21; 3:43; 4:18; 11:10; 26; 27:4; 27:11; 33:54; 36:6; 36:8; 36:12

Deuteronomy

29:17

Joshua

6:23; 6:25; 7:14; 7:17; 7:17; 7:17; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21

Judges

1:25; 9:1; 9:1; 13:2; 13:2; 17:7; 18:1; 18:2; 18:11; 18:19; 21:24

Ruth

2:1; 2:3

1 Samuel

1:18; 9:21; 10:21; 20:6; 20:29

2 Samuel

14:7; 16:5

1 Chronicles

2:53; 2:55; 4:2; 4:8; 4:21; 4:27; 4:38; 5:7; 6:4; 6:45; 7:5; 16:28

Nehemiah

4:7

Esther

9:28

Job

31:34; 32:2

Psalms

22:28; 96:7; 107:41

Jeremiah

1:15; 2:4; 3:14; 8:3; 10:25; 15:3; 25:9; 31:1; 33:24

Ezekiel

20:32

Amos

3:1; 3:1; 3:2; 3:2

Micah

2:3

Nahum

3:4; 3:4

Zechariah

12:12; 12:12; 12:12; 12:13; 12:13; 12:14; 12:14; 14:17; 14:18

H4940

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Strong's Number H4940 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁפָּחָה (mišpāḥâ),
which occurs 304 times in 224 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 8:19–Num 3:33)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the eretz, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:18 - the Arvadi, the Tzemari, and the Hamati. Afterward the families of the Kana`anim were spread abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the eretz after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the eretz be blessed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - He said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your seed will be as the dust of the eretz, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the eretz be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:40 - These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esav, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief `Alvah, chief Yetet,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 - These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Hanokh, and Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi; these are the families of Re'uven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:15 - The sons of Shim`on: Yemu'el, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakhin, and Tzochar, and Sha'ul the son of a Kana`ani woman; these are the families of Shim`on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:17 - The sons of Gershon: Livni and Shim`i, according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:19 - The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - The sons of Korach: Assir, and Elkana, and Avi'asaf; these are the families of the Korchi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - El`azar Aharon's son took one of the daughters of Puti'el as his wife; and she bore him Pinechas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moshe called for all the Zakenim of Yisra'el, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Pesach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molekh, from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - then shall he go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Moreover of the children of the strangers who live as foreigners among you, of them may you buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land: and they shall be your possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - If a stranger or foreigner living with you has grown rich, and your brother has grown poor beside him, and sell himself to the stranger or foreigner living with you, or to the stock of the stranger's family;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - The children of Re'uven, Yisra'el's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - Of the children of Shim`on, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - Of the children of Yehudah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - Of the children of Yissakhar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - Of the children of Zevulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - Of the children of Yosef, of the children of Efrayim, their generations, by thir families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - Of the children of Menashsheh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - Of the children of Binyamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - Of the children of Naftali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - Thus the children of Yisra'el did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moshe, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - "Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:18 - These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Livni and Shim`i.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:19 - The sons of Kehat by their families: `Amram, and Yitzhar, Hevron, and `Uzzi'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - The sons of Merari by their families: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:21 - Of Gershon was the family of the Livni, and the family of the Shim`i: these are the families of the Gershoni.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families of the Gershoni shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:27 - Of Kehat was the family of the `Amrami, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hevroni, and the family of the `Uzzi'eli: these are the families of the Kehati.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the sons of Kehat shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kehati shall be Elitzafan the son of `Uzzi'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:33 - Of Merari was the family of the Machli, and the family of the Mushi. These are the families of Merari.

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