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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 4 / 5 (Jos 19:48–Est 9:28)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families H4940, these cities with their villages.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Then the lot came out for the families H4940 of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:5 -

Now the rest of the sons of Kohath [fn]received ten cities by lot from the families H4940 of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:6 -

And the sons of Gershon [fn]received thirteen cities by lot from the families H4940 of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 -

The sons of Merari according to their families H4940 [fn]received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:10 - and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families H4940 of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, for the lot was theirs first.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:20 -

Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families H4940 of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:26 - All the cities with their pasture lands for the families H4940 of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:27 -

Now to the sons of Gershon, one of the families H4940 of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:33 - All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families H4940 were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:34 -

Now to the families H4940 of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:40 - All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families H4940, the rest of the families H4940 of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family H4940 go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 -

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s [fn]relatives and spoke to them and to the whole family H4940 of the household of his mother’s father, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:2 -

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family H4940 of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

And there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family H4940 of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - So the sons of Dan sent from their family H4940 five men out of their whole number, [fn]men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:11 -

Then from the family H4940 of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, 600 men armed with weapons of war set out.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:19 - And they said to him, “Be silent; put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man or to be priest to a tribe and a family H4940 in Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - Then the sons of Israel went away from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family H4940, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 -

Now Naomi had [fn]a kinsman of her husband, a [fn]mighty man of excellence, of the family H4940 of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she went. And she came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And [fn]it so happened that she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family H4940 of Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - And Saul answered and said, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family H4940 the least of all the families H4940 of the [fn]tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me in this way?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:21 - Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families H4940, and the Matrite family H4940 was taken. And Saul the son of Kish was taken; but they looked for him, and he could not be found.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:18 - But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family H4940 in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:6 - “If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city because it is the yearly sacrifice there for the whole family H4940.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - and he said, ‘Please send me on my way, since our family H4940 has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. So now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - “And behold, the whole family H4940 has risen against your servant-woman, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which remains, so as to [fn]leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:5 -

And King David came to Bahurim, and behold, there came out from there a man of the family H4940 of the house of Saul whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out cursing continually as he came.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:53 -

and the families H4940 of Kiriath-jearim:

the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:55 -

The families H4940 of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:2 -

Reaiah the son of Shobal [fn]became the father of Jahath,

and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families H4940 of the Zorathites.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:8 -

Koz became the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families H4940 of Aharhel the son of Harum.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 -

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families H4940 of the house of the fine linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 -

Now Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, nor did all their family H4940 multiply like the sons of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 -

these, who came into the record by name, were leaders in their families H4940; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 -

His [fn]relatives by their families H4940, in the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:19 -

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.

And these are the families H4940 of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:54 -

Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders. To the sons of Aaron of the families H4940 of the Kohathites (for the lot was theirs first),

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:60 -

from the tribe of Benjamin:

Geba with its pasture lands, [fn]Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands.

All their cities throughout their families H4940 were thirteen cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 -

Now to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, from the family H4940 of the tribe, from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:62 -

And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families H4940, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:63 -

To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families H4940, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:66 -

Now some of the families H4940 of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70 -

and from the half-tribe of Manasseh:

Aner with its pasture lands and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the family H4940 of the rest of the sons of Kohath.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:71 -

To the sons of Gershom were given, from the family H4940 of the half-tribe of Manasseh:

Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Their [fn]relatives among all the families H4940 of Issachar were mighty men of valor, recorded by genealogy, in all 87,000.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:28 -

Ascribe to Yahweh, O families H4940 of the peoples,

Ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:13 - that I had men stand in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the [fn]exposed places, and I had the people stand by families H4940 with their swords, spears, and bows.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - So these days were to be remembered and celebrated throughout every generation, every H4940 family H4940, every province, and every city; thus these days of Purim were not to pass away from among the Jews, nor their memory come to an end from their seed.

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