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Lexicon :: Strong's H4940 - mišpāḥâ

Aa
מִשְׁפָּחָה
Transliteration
mišpāḥâ
Pronunciation
mish-paw-khaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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 3 / 5 (Num 26:41–Jos 19:40)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 -

These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:42 -

These were Dan’s descendants by their clans:

the Shuhamite clan from Shuham.

These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 -

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:44 -

Asher’s descendants by their clans:

the Imnite clan from Imnah;

the Ishvite clan from Ishvi;

the Beriite clan from Beriah.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:45 -

From Beriah’s descendants:

the Heberite clan from Heber;

the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:47 -

These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:48 -

Naphtali’s descendants by their clans:

the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel;

the Gunite clan from Guni;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:49 -

the Jezerite clan from Jezer;

the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 -

These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:57 -

These were the Levites registered by their clans:

the Gershonite clan from Gershon;

the Kohathite clan from Kohath;

the Merarite clan from Merari.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:58 -

These were the Levite family groups:

the Libnite clan,

the Hebronite clan,

the Mahlite clan,

the Mushite clan,

and the Korahite clan.

Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:1 -

The daughters of Zelophehad approached; Zelophehad was the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 -

“Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father’s brothers.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 -

“If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the LORD commanded Moses.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 -

“You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 -

The family heads from the clan of the descendants of Gilead ​— ​the son of Machir, son of Manasseh ​— ​who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were heads of the Israelite families.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 -

“This is what the LORD has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 -

“Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 -

They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 -

“Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 -

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:14 -

“In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the LORD selects is to come forward clan by clan. The clan the LORD selects is to come forward family by family. The family the LORD selects is to come forward man by man.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 -

He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the Zerahite clan was selected. He had the Zerahite clan come forward by heads of families,[fn] and Zabdi was selected.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:15 -

To the tribe of Reuben’s descendants by their clans, Moses gave

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 -

The border of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its plain. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24 -

To the tribe of the Gadites by their clans, Moses gave

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:28 -

This was the inheritance of the Gadites by their clans, with the cities and their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 -

And to half the tribe of Manasseh (that is, to half the tribe of Manasseh’s descendants by their clans) Moses gave

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:31 -

But half of Gilead, and Og’s royal cities in Bashan ​— ​Ashtaroth and Edrei ​— ​are for the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh (that is, half the descendants of Machir by their clans).

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 -

Now the allotment for the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their clans was in the southernmost region, south to the Wilderness of Zin and over to the border of Edom.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 -

Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:20 -

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 -

This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:

The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar on the east to Upper Beth-horon.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:8 -

From Tappuah the border went westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:2 -

So the allotment was for the rest of Manasseh’s descendants by their clans, for the sons of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:11 -

The lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants by their clans, and their allotted territory lay between Judah’s descendants and Joseph’s descendants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 -

The Jordan formed the border on the east side.

This was the inheritance of Benjamin’s descendants, by their clans, according to its surrounding borders.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:21 -

These were the cities of the tribe of Benjamin’s descendants by their clans:

Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 -

Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[fn] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath[fn] ​— ​fourteen cities, with their settlements.

This was the inheritance for Benjamin’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:1 -

The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of his descendants by their clans, but their inheritance was within the inheritance given to Judah’s descendants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 -

and all the settlements surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah in the south[fn]).

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:10 -

The third lot came up for Zebulun’s descendants by their clans.

The territory of their inheritance stretched as far as Sarid;

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 -

This was the inheritance of Zebulun’s descendants by their clans, these cities, with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:17 -

The fourth lot came out for the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 -

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans, the cities, with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:24 -

The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 -

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Asher’s descendants by their clans, these cities with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:32 -

The sixth lot came out for Naphtali’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 -

This was the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali’s descendants by their clans, the cities with their settlements.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:40 -

The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan’s descendants by their clans.


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