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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 5 / 5 (Job 31:34–Zec 14:18)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families H4940 terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred H4940 of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:27 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds H4940 of the nations shall worship before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 96:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:7 - Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds H4940 of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 - Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families H4940 like a flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - For, lo, I will call all the families H4940 of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 - Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families H4940 of the house of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, H4940 and I will bring you to Zion:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:3 - And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, H4940 which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families H4940 that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - And I will appoint over them four kinds, H4940 saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - Behold, I will send and take all the families H4940 of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 - At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families H4940 of Israel, and they shall be my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:24 - Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families H4940 which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families H4940 of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:1 - Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family H4940 which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:2 - You only have I known of all the families H4940 of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family H4940 do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families H4940 through her witchcrafts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:12 - And the land shall mourn, every H4940 family H4940 apart; the family H4940 of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family H4940 of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:13 - The family H4940 of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family H4940 of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:14 - All the families H4940 that remain, every family H4940 apart, and their wives apart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:17 - And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families H4940 of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - And if the family H4940 of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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