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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 47 times in 42 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, H4940 and left them without the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:14 - In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families H4940 thereof; and the family H4940 which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:15 - And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, H4940 the cities and the villages thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24 - And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 - And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 - And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; H4940 even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families H4940 was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 - The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:2 - There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; H4940 for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:11 - And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: H4940 and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 - Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families H4940 were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:1 - And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: H4940 and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:10 - And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: H4940 and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:17 - And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, H4940 the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:24 - And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:32 - The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, H4940 the cities and their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:40 - And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. H4940

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, H4940 these cities with their villages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - And the lot came out for the families H4940 of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 - And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families H4940 of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 - And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families H4940 of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 - The children of Merari by their families H4940 had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - Which the children of Aaron, being of the families H4940 of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 - And the families H4940 of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families H4940 of the children of Kohath that remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 - And unto the children of Gershon, of the families H4940 of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families H4940 were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:34 - And unto the families H4940 of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, H4940 which were remaining of the families H4940 of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
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