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Lexicon :: Strong's H4931 - mišmereṯ

Aa
מִשְׁמֶרֶת
Transliteration
mišmereṯ
Pronunciation
mish-mer'-reth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2414g

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmereth, mish-mer'-reth; feminine of H4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party:—charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H4931 in the following manner: charge (50x), ward (9x), watch (7x), keep (7x), ordinance (3x), offices (1x), safeguard (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H4931 in the following manner: charge (50x), ward (9x), watch (7x), keep (7x), ordinance (3x), offices (1x), safeguard (1x).

  1. guard, charge, function, obligation, service, watch

    1. guard, watch, house of detention or confinement

    2. keeping, preserving

    3. charge, injunction

    4. office, function (ceremonial)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmereth, mish-mer'-reth; feminine of H4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party:—charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
STRONGS H4931: Abbreviations
מִשְׁמֶ֫רֶתּ 78 noun feminine guard, watch, also charge, function; — מ׳ absolute 2 Samuel 20:3 +, construct 2 Kings 11:5 +; absolute מִשְׁמָ֑רֶת Exodus 16:34; suffix מִשְׁמַרְתִּי Genesis 26:5 +, etc.; plural מִשְׁמָרוֺת 1 Chronicles 9:23 +; construct מִשְׁמְרוֺת Nehemiah 7:3; suffix רוֺתָם - 2 Chronicles 7:6 +, תֵיהֶם - 2 Chronicles 31:17; —
†1. guard, watch: בֵּית מ׳ 2 Samuel 20:3 = house of detention, confinement; אַתָּה עִמָּדִי מ׳ 1 Samuel 22:23 i.e. protected, secure; with שָׁמַר keep the watch 2 Kings 11:5, 6, 7; 1 Chronicles 12:30 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:29); = post of watch (figurative) Isaiah 21:3 (|| מִעְפֶּה), Habakkuk 2:1 (|| מָצוֺר); plural = guards Nehemiah 7:3; 1 Chronicles 9:23.
†2. keeping, preserving, וְהָיָה לָכֶם לְמ׳ Exodus 12:6 i.e. ye shall keep it; הִנִּיחוּ לָכֶם לְמ׳ Exodus 16:23; compare Exodus 16:32; Exodus 16:33; Exodus 16:34; Numbers 19:9 (all P).
†3. charge, injunction of י׳, with שָׁמַר, in general Deuteronomy 11:1 (+ חֻקוֺת, מִשְׁפָּטִים, מִצְוֺת), compare Genesis 26:5; 1 Kings 2:3, and (מִצְוַת י׳ מ׳) Joshua 22:3 (all RD), Malachi 3:14; of specific injunctions Leviticus 18:30; Numbers 9:19, 23.
4. a. ceremonial office or function (AV RV usually charge) of priest or Levite (P [especially Numbers], Ezekiel 40; Ezekiel 44; Ezekiel 48; Chronicles, Zechariah), mostly with שָׁמַר : מִשְׁכַּן הָלֵדוּת מ׳ Numbers 1:53, מִשְׁכַּן י׳ מ׳ Numbers 31:30, 47, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ מ׳ Ezekiel 44:15; Numbers 3:38, אֹהֶל מוֺעֵד מ׳ Numbers 18:4 compare Numbers 18:3, 1 Chronicles 23:32, הַקֹּדֶשׁ מ׳ Numbers 3:28, 32; Numbers 18:5; 1 Chronicles 23:32, קָדָשַׁי מ׳ (of Israel in general) Ezekiel 44:8, הַמִּזְבֵּחַ מ׳ Numbers 18:5; Ezekiel 40:46, תְּרוּמֹתָ֑י Numbers 18:8, הַבַּיִת מ׳ Ezekiel 40:45; Ezekiel 44:14, הַטָּהֳרָה מ׳ Nehemiah 12:45; with genitive (suffix) מ׳ שׁ׳ = perform the service imposed by, due to, Leviticus 8:35; Leviticus 22:9; Ezekiel 44:8, 16; Ezekiel 48:11; Zechariah 3:7, אֱםהֵיהֶם מ׳ Nehemiah 12:45 (of Judah in general); הָעֵדָה מ׳ Numbers 3:7 a, בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ מ׳ Numbers 3:8, 38, בְּנֵי גֵרְשׁוֺן מ׳ Numbers 3:25; compare Numbers 3:7a.,Numbers 3:31, 36; Numbers 4:27, 28, 31, 32; Numbers 18:3; 1 Chronicles 23:32; also, in secular sense, בֵּית שָׁאוּל מ׳ 1 Chronicles 12:30; מַשָּׂאָם מ׳ Numbers 4:31, מַשָּׂאָם כְּלֵי מ׳ Numbers 4:32 (Numbers 4:27 read with Greek Version of the LXX Di Gr Gray, etc. בְּשֵׁמוֺת for במ׳, and perhaps מִשְׁמֶרֶת after אֵת, compare Numbers 4:32); עֲלֵיהֶם מ׳ 1 Chronicles 9:27 i.e. the duty rested upon them; — 1 Chronicles 25:8; 1 Chronicles 26:12 see I. עֻמָה c, d; עֹמְדִים עַלמֿ׳ 2 Chronicles 7:6 were standing according to (or in) their offices, הֱעֶמִיד עַל מ׳ appoint to their offices 2 Chronicles 8:14; 35:2.
b. plural of Levitical divisions for service Nehemiah 12:9.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:5; 26:5

Exodus

12:6; 16:23; 16:32; 16:33; 16:34; 16:34

Leviticus

8:35; 18:30; 22:9

Numbers

1:53; 3:7; 3:7; 3:8; 3:25; 3:28; 3:31; 3:32; 3:36; 3:38; 3:38; 4:27; 4:27; 4:28; 4:31; 4:31; 4:32; 4:32; 4:32; 9:19; 9:23; 18:3; 18:3; 18:4; 18:5; 18:5; 18:8; 19:9; 31:30; 31:47

Deuteronomy

11:1

Joshua

22:3

1 Samuel

22:23

2 Samuel

20:3; 20:3

1 Kings

2:3

2 Kings

11:5; 11:5; 11:6; 11:7

1 Chronicles

9:23; 9:23; 9:27; 12:29; 12:30; 12:30; 23:32; 23:32; 23:32; 25:8; 26:12

2 Chronicles

7:6; 7:6; 8:14; 31:17; 35:2

Nehemiah

7:3; 7:3; 12:9; 12:45; 12:45

Isaiah

21:3

Ezekiel

40; 40:45; 40:46; 44; 44:8; 44:8; 44:14; 44:15; 44:16; 48; 48:11

Habakkuk

2:1

Zechariah

3:7

Malachi

3:14

H4931

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Strong's Number H4931 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mišmereṯ),
which occurs 78 times in 69 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 26:5–2Ch 13:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:34 - So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:35 - And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:30 - So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:9 - So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:7 - In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:8 - And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:25 - In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:32 - Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:38 - And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27 - From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:23 - At the word of the Lord they put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:3 - They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:4 - They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:5 - You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:8 - And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:23 - Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:5 - And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:7 - And the two divisions of you, who go out on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the house of the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:23 - So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27 - Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29 - And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:8 - And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:12 - Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - And the priests were in their places, and the Levites with their instruments of music for the Lord's song, which David the king had made for the praise of the Lord whose mercy is unchanging for ever, when David gave praise by their hand; and the priests were sounding horns before them; and all Israel were on their feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.

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