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Lexicon :: Strong's H4931 - mišmereṯ

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מִשְׁמֶרֶת
Transliteration
mišmereṯ
Pronunciation
mish-mer'-reth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2414g

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmereth, mish-mer'-reth; feminine of H4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party:—charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H4931 in the following manner: charge (50x), ward (9x), watch (7x), keep (7x), ordinance (3x), offices (1x), safeguard (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H4931 in the following manner: charge (50x), ward (9x), watch (7x), keep (7x), ordinance (3x), offices (1x), safeguard (1x).

  1. guard, charge, function, obligation, service, watch

    1. guard, watch, house of detention or confinement

    2. keeping, preserving

    3. charge, injunction

    4. office, function (ceremonial)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmereth, mish-mer'-reth; feminine of H4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party:—charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
STRONGS H4931: Abbreviations
מִשְׁמֶ֫רֶתּ 78 noun feminine guard, watch, also charge, function; — מ׳ absolute 2 Samuel 20:3 +, construct 2 Kings 11:5 +; absolute מִשְׁמָ֑רֶת Exodus 16:34; suffix מִשְׁמַרְתִּי Genesis 26:5 +, etc.; plural מִשְׁמָרוֺת 1 Chronicles 9:23 +; construct מִשְׁמְרוֺת Nehemiah 7:3; suffix רוֺתָם - 2 Chronicles 7:6 +, תֵיהֶם - 2 Chronicles 31:17; —
†1. guard, watch: בֵּית מ׳ 2 Samuel 20:3 = house of detention, confinement; אַתָּה עִמָּדִי מ׳ 1 Samuel 22:23 i.e. protected, secure; with שָׁמַר keep the watch 2 Kings 11:5, 6, 7; 1 Chronicles 12:30 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:29); = post of watch (figurative) Isaiah 21:3 (|| מִעְפֶּה), Habakkuk 2:1 (|| מָצוֺר); plural = guards Nehemiah 7:3; 1 Chronicles 9:23.
†2. keeping, preserving, וְהָיָה לָכֶם לְמ׳ Exodus 12:6 i.e. ye shall keep it; הִנִּיחוּ לָכֶם לְמ׳ Exodus 16:23; compare Exodus 16:32; Exodus 16:33; Exodus 16:34; Numbers 19:9 (all P).
†3. charge, injunction of י׳, with שָׁמַר, in general Deuteronomy 11:1 (+ חֻקוֺת, מִשְׁפָּטִים, מִצְוֺת), compare Genesis 26:5; 1 Kings 2:3, and (מִצְוַת י׳ מ׳) Joshua 22:3 (all RD), Malachi 3:14; of specific injunctions Leviticus 18:30; Numbers 9:19, 23.
4. a. ceremonial office or function (AV RV usually charge) of priest or Levite (P [especially Numbers], Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 44; Ezekiel 48; Chronicles, Zechariah), mostly with שָׁמַר : מִשְׁכַּן הָלֵדוּת מ׳ Numbers 1:53, מִשְׁכַּן י׳ מ׳ Numbers 31:30, 47, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ מ׳ Ezekiel 44:15; Numbers 3:38, אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד מ׳ Numbers 18:4 compare Numbers 18:3, 1 Chronicles 23:32, הַקֹּדֶשׁ מ׳ Numbers 3:28, 32; Numbers 18:5; 1 Chronicles 23:32, קָדָשַׁי מ׳ (of Israel in general) Ezekiel 44:8, הַמִּזְבֵּחַ מ׳ Numbers 18:5; Ezekiel 40:46, תְּרוּמֹתָ֑י Numbers 18:8, הַבַּיִת מ׳ Ezekiel 40:45; Ezekiel 44:14, הַטָּהֳרָה מ׳ Nehemiah 12:45; with genitive (suffix) מ׳ שׁ׳ = perform the service imposed by, due to, Leviticus 8:35; Leviticus 22:9; Ezekiel 44:8, 16; Ezekiel 48:11; Zechariah 3:7, אֱםהֵיהֶם מ׳ Nehemiah 12:45 (of Judah in general); הָעֵדָה מ׳ Numbers 3:7 a, בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ מ׳ Numbers 3:8, 38, בְּנֵי גֵרְשׁוֺן מ׳ Numbers 3:25; compare Numbers 3:7a.,Numbers 3:31, 36; Numbers 4:27, 28, 31, 32; Numbers 18:3; 1 Chronicles 23:32; also, in secular sense, בֵּית שָׁאוּל מ׳ 1 Chronicles 12:30; מַשָּׂאָם מ׳ Numbers 4:31, מַשָּׂאָם כְּלֵי מ׳ Numbers 4:32 (Numbers 4:27 read with Greek Version of the LXX Di Gr Gray, etc. בְּשֵׁמוֺת for במ׳, and perhaps מִשְׁמֶרֶת after אֵת, compare Numbers 4:32); עֲלֵיהֶם מ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:27 i.e. the duty rested upon them; — 1 Chronicles 25:8; 1 Chronicles 26:12 see I. עֻמָה c, d; עֹמְדִים עַלמֿ׳ 2 Chronicles 7:6 were standing according to (or in) their offices, הֱעֶמִיד עַל מ׳ appoint to their offices 2 Chronicles 8:14; 35:2.
b. plural of Levitical divisions for service Nehemiah 12:9.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:5; 26:5

Exodus

12:6; 16:23; 16:32; 16:33; 16:34; 16:34

Leviticus

8:35; 18:30; 22:9

Numbers

1:53; 3:7; 3:7; 3:8; 3:25; 3:28; 3:31; 3:32; 3:36; 3:38; 3:38; 4:27; 4:27; 4:28; 4:31; 4:31; 4:32; 4:32; 4:32; 9:19; 9:23; 18:3; 18:3; 18:4; 18:5; 18:5; 18:8; 19:9; 31:30; 31:47

Deuteronomy

11:1

Joshua

22:3

1 Samuel

22:23

2 Samuel

20:3; 20:3

1 Kings

2:3

2 Kings

11:5; 11:5; 11:6; 11:7

1 Chronicles

9:23; 9:23; 9:27; 12:29; 12:30; 12:30; 23:32; 23:32; 23:32; 25:8; 26:12

2 Chronicles

7:6; 7:6; 8:14; 31:17; 35:2

Nehemiah

7:3; 7:3; 12:9; 12:45; 12:45

Isaiah

21:3

Ezekiel

40; 40:45; 40:46; 44; 44:8; 44:8; 44:14; 44:15; 44:16; 48; 48:11

Habakkuk

2:1

Zechariah

3:7

Malachi

3:14

H4931

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Strong's Number H4931 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mišmereṯ),
which occurs 78 times in 69 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 26:5–2Ch 13:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - “because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - ‘Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:34 - As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - “Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - ‘Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:9 - ‘They shall therefore keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD sanctify them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - “but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - “And they shall attend to his needs and the needs of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of meeting, to do the work of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - “Also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting, and to the needs of the children of Israel, to do the work of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - According to the number of all the males, from a month old and above, there were eight thousand six[fn] hundred keeping charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the screen, and all the work relating to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, with oversight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - And the appointed duty of the children of Merari included the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, its utensils, all the work relating to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons, keeping charge of the sanctuary, to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but the outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27 - “Aaron and his sons shall assign all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their tasks and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all their tasks as their duty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And their duties shall be under the authority[fn] of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - “And this is what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - “and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their service; and you shall assign to each man by name the items he must carry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of meeting, to attend to needs, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall do to the Levites regarding their duties.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud continued long, many days above the tabernacle, the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23 - At the command of the LORD they remained encamped, and at the command of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s rod back before the Testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - “They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die—they and you also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4 - “They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; but an outsider shall not come near you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5 - “And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - And the LORD spoke to Aaron: “Here, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - ‘Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification;[fn] it is for purifying from sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the children of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - “Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - “You have not left your brethren these many days, up to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:23 - “Stay with me; do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life, but with me you shall be safe.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - Now David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, his concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5 - Then he commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall do: One-third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall be keeping watch over the king’s house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:6 - “one-third shall be at the gate of Sur, and one-third at the gate behind the escorts. You shall keep the watch of the house, lest it be broken down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:7 - “The two contingents of you who go off duty on the Sabbath shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD for the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:23 - So they and their children were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, the house of the tabernacle, by assignment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27 - And they lodged all around the house of God because they had the responsibility, and they were in charge of opening it every morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29 - of the sons of Benjamin, relatives of Saul, three thousand (until then the greatest part of them had remained loyal to the house of Saul);

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - and that they should attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, the needs of the holy place, and the needs of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the work of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:8 - And they cast lots for their duty, the small as well as the great, the teacher with the student.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 - Among these were the divisions of the gatekeepers, among the chief men, having duties just like their brethren, to serve in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - And the priests attended to their services; the Levites also with instruments of the music of the LORD, which King David had made to praise the LORD, saying, “For His mercy endures forever,”[fn] whenever David offered praise by their ministry. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - “And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense; they also set the showbread in order on the pure gold table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening; for we keep the command of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken Him.

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