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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').
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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 3 / 5 (Num 26:41–Jos 19:40)

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These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families H4940; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600.

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These are the sons of Dan according to their families H4940:

of [fn]Shuham, the family H4940 of the Shuhamites.

These are the families H4940 of Dan according to their families H4940.

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All the families H4940 of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were 64,400.

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The sons of Asher according to their families H4940:

of Imnah, the family H4940 of the Imnites;

of Ishvi, the family H4940 of the Ishvites;

of Beriah, the family H4940 of the Beriites.

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Of the sons of Beriah:

of Heber, the family H4940 of the Heberites;

of Malchiel, the family H4940 of the Malchielites.

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These are the families H4940 of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, 53,400.

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The sons of Naphtali according to their families H4940:

of Jahzeel, the family H4940 of the Jahzeelites;

of Guni, the family H4940 of the Gunites;

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of Jezer, the family H4940 of the Jezerites;

of Shillem, the family H4940 of the Shillemites.

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These are the families H4940 of Naphtali according to their families H4940; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400.

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And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families H4940:

of Gershon, the family H4940 of the Gershonites;

of Kohath, the family H4940 of the Kohathites;

of Merari, the family H4940 of the Merarites.

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These are the families H4940 of Levi:

the family H4940 of the Libnites,

the family H4940 of the Hebronites,

the family H4940 of the Mahlites,

the family H4940 of the Mushites,

the family H4940 of the Korahites. Kohath [fn]became the father of Amram.

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Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families H4940 of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - “Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family H4940 because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - ‘And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his blood relative in his own family H4940, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a statutory judgment to the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - ‘And you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families H4940; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

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And the heads of the fathers’ households of the family H4940 of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families H4940 of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - “This is [fn]what Yahweh has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry whoever is good in their sight; only they must marry within the family H4940 of the tribe of their father.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “And every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family H4940 of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married those from the families H4940 of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance [fn]remained with the tribe of the family H4940 of their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - lest there be among you a man or woman, or family H4940 or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives H4940 and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:14 - ‘In the morning then you shall come near by your tribes. And it will be that the tribe which Yahweh takes by lot shall come near by families H4940, and the family H4940 which Yahweh takes shall come near by households, and the household which Yahweh takes shall come near man by man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 - And he brought the family H4940 of Judah near, and he took the family H4940 of the Zerahites; and he brought the family H4940 of the Zerahites near man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

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So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the sons of Reuben was the [fn]Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families H4940, the cities and their villages.

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Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 - This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families H4940, the cities and their villages.

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Moses also gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir according to their families H4940.

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Now the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families H4940 [fn]reached the border of Edom, southward to the wilderness of Zin at the far end toward the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - And the west border was at the Great Sea, even its [fn]coastline. This is the border around the sons of Judah according to their families H4940.

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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families H4940: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - From Tappuah the border continued westward to the [fn]brook of Kanah, and [fn]it ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families H4940,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:2 - So the lot was made for the rest of the sons of Manasseh according to their families H4940: for the sons of Abiezer and for the sons of Helek and for the sons of Asriel and for the sons of Shechem and for the sons of Hepher and for the sons of Shemida; these were the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the males according to their families H4940.

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Now the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families H4940, and the territory of their lot [fn]lay between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to their families H4940 and according to its borders all around.

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Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families H4940 were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families H4940.

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Then the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families H4940, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - and all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the [fn]Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families H4940.

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Now the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families H4940. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This was the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families H4940, these cities with their villages.

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The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the sons of Issachar according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families H4940, the cities with their villages.

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Now the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families H4940, these cities with their villages.

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The sixth lot came out for the sons of Naphtali, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their families H4940, the cities with their villages.

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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families H4940.


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