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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 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, 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 - ‘So in the morning you shall come forward by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the LORD selects by lot shall come forward by families H4940, and the family H4940 which the LORD selects shall come forward by households, and the household which the LORD selects shall come forward man by man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 - So he brought the family H4940 of Judah forward, and he selected the family H4940 of the Zerahites; then he brought the family H4940 of the Zerahites forward man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

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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 - 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

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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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 -

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 extreme south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - The western 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, the sons of Helek, the sons of Asriel, the sons of Shechem, the sons of Hepher, and the sons of Shemida; these were the male [fn]descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph 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, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (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 went to Simeon, to 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 went to Issachar, to 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 went to the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31

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 went to the sons of Naphtali; to the sons of Naphtali according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39

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 went to the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families H4940.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:4 - Then the lot came out for the families H4940 of the Kohathites. And to the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, thirteen cities were given by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.

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And to the rest of the sons of Kohath ten cities were given by lot from the families H4940 of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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And to the sons of Gershon thirteen cities were given by lot from the families H4940 of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

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

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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, because the lot was theirs first.

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

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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.

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And 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 one who commits manslaughter, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

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

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And 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, Kartah with its pasture lands,

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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.
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