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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)
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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 1 / 5 (Gen 8:19–Num 3:33)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - Every H3605 animal H2416, every H3605 crawling H7431 thing H7431, and every H3605 bird H5775, everything H3605 that moves H7430 on the earth H776, went H3318 out H3318 [fn]by their families H4940 from the ark H8392.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these H428 the people of the coastlands H339 of the nations H1471 [fn]were separated H6504 into their lands H776, every H376 one H376 according to his language H3956, according to their families H4940, into their nations H1471.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:18 - the Arvadite H721, the Zemarite H6786, and the Hamathite H2577; and afterward H310 the families H4940 of the Canaanite H3669 were spread H6327 abroad.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These H428 are the sons H1121 of Ham H2526, according to their families H4940, according to their languages H3956, by their lands H776, and by their nations H1471.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These H428 are the sons H1121 of Shem H8035, according to their families H4940, according to their languages H3956, by their lands H776, and according to their nations H1471.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These H428 are the families H4940 of the sons H1121 of Noah H5146, according to their descendants H8435, by their nations H1471; and out of these H428 the nations H1471 were separated H6504 on the earth H776 after H310 the flood H3999.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 -

And I will bless H1288 those who bless H1288 you,

And the one who [fn]curses H7043 you I will [fn]curse H779.

And in you all H3605 the families H4940 of the earth H127 will be blessed H1288.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - but you shall go H1980 to my father’s H1 house H1004 and to my relatives H4940, and take H3947 a wife H802 for my son H1121.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - “And he said H559 to me, ‘The LORD H3068, before H6440 whom H834 I have walked H1980, will send H7971 His angel H4397 with you to make H6743 your journey H1870 successful H6743, and you will take H3947 a wife H802 for my son H1121 from my relatives H4940 and from my father’s H1 house H1004;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - then H227 you will be H5352 free H5352 from my oath H423, when H3588 you come H935 to my relatives H4940; and if H518 they do not give H5414 her to you, you will be free H5355 from my oath H423.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - “Your [fn]descendants H2233 will also be like the dust H6083 of the earth H776, and you will [fn]spread H6555 out H6555 to the west H3220 and to the east H6924, and to the north H6828 and to the south H5045; and in you and in your [fn]descendants H2233 shall all H3605 the families H4940 of the earth H127 be blessed H1288.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:40 -

Now these H428 are the names H8034 of the chiefs H441 [fn]descended from Esau H6215, according to their families H4940 and their localities H4725, by their names H8034: chief H441 Timna H8555, chief H441 [fn]Alvah H5933, chief H441 Jetheth H3509,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 -

These H428 are the heads H7218 of their fathers’ H1 households H1004. The sons H1121 of Reuben H7205, Israel’s H3478 firstborn H1060: Hanoch H2585 and Pallu H6396, Hezron H2696 and Carmi H3756; these H428 are the families H4940 of Reuben H7205.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:15 - And the sons H1121 of Simeon H8095: [fn]Jemuel H3223, Jamin H3226, Ohad H161, Jachin H3199, Zohar H6714, and Shaul H7586 the son H1121 of a Canaanite H3669 woman H3669; these H428 are the families H4940 of Simeon H8095.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:17 - The sons H1121 of Gershon H1648: [fn]Libni H3845 and Shimei H8096, according to their families H4940.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:19 - And the sons H1121 of Merari H4847: Mahli H4249 and Mushi H4187. These H428 are the families H4940 of the Levites H3881 according to their generations H8435.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - And the sons H1121 of Korah H7141: Assir H617, Elkanah H511, and [fn]Abiasaph H23; these H428 are the families H4940 of the Korahites H7145.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Now Aaron’s H175 son H1121 Eleazar H499 [fn]married H3947 H802 one H4480 of the daughters H1323 of Putiel H6317, and she bore H3205 him Phinehas H6372. These H428 are the heads H7218 of the fathers’ H1 households of the Levites H3881 according to their families H4940.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 -

Then Moses H4872 called H7121 for all H3605 the elders H2205 of Israel H3478 and said H559 to them, “Go H4900 and take H3947 for yourselves [fn]lambs H6629 according to your families H4940, and slaughter H7819 the Passover H6453 lamb.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - then I Myself H589 will set H7760 My face H6440 against that man H376 and against his family H4940, and I will cut H3772 off H3772 from among H7130 their people H5971 both him and all H3605 those who play H2181 the H2181 prostitute H2181 with him, by playing H2181 the H2181 prostitute H2181 with Molech H4432.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - ‘So you shall consecrate H6942 the fiftieth H2572 year H8141 and proclaim H7121 [fn]a release H1865 throughout the land H776 to all H3605 its inhabitants H3427. It shall be a jubilee H3104 for you, [fn]and each H376 of you shall return H7725 to his own property H272, [fn]and each H376 of you shall return H7725 to his family H4940.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - ‘He shall then leave H3318 you, he and his sons H1121 with him, and shall go H7725 back H7725 to his family H4940, so that he may return H7725 to the property H272 of his forefathers H1.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘You may also H1571 acquire H7069 them from the sons H1121 of the foreign H8453 residents H8453 who reside H1481 among H5973 you, and from their families H4940 who H834 are with you, whom H834 they will have produced H3205 in your land H776; they also may become H1961 your possession H272.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 -

‘Now if H3588 the [fn]means H3027 of a stranger H1616 or of a foreign H8453 resident H8453 with you becomes H5381 sufficient H5381, and a countryman H251 of yours becomes H4134 poor H4134 in H5973 relation H5973 to H5973 him and sells H4376 himself to a stranger H1616 who H8453 is H8453 residing H8453 with you, or H176 to the descendants H6133 of a stranger’s H1616 family H4940,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - or H176 his uncle H1730, or H176 his uncle’s H1730 son H1121 may redeem H1350 him, or H176 one of his blood H7607 relatives H7607 H1320 from his family H4940 may redeem H1350 him; or H176 [fn]if he prospers H5381, he may redeem H1350 himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - “Take H5375 a [fn]census H7218 of all H3605 the congregation H5712 of the sons H1121 of Israel H3478, by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, every H3605 male H2145, head H1538 by head H1538
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled H6950 all H3605 the congregation H5712 on the first H259 day of the second H8145 month H2320. Then they registered H3205 by H3205 ancestry H3205 in their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, head H1538 by head H1538,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 -

Now the sons H1121 of Reuben H7205, Israel’s H3478 firstborn H1060, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, head H1538 by head H1538, every H3605 male H2145 from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 -

Of the sons H1121 of Simeon H8095, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, their numbered H6485 men, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, head H1538 by head H1538, every H3605 male H2145 from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 -

Of the sons H1121 of Gad H1410, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 -

Of the sons H1121 of Judah H3063, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 -

Of the sons H1121 of Issachar H3485, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 -

Of the sons H1121 of Zebulun H2074, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 -

Of the sons H1121 of Joseph H3130, namely, of the sons H1121 of Ephraim H669, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 -

Of the sons H1121 of Manasseh H4519, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 -

Of the sons H1121 of Benjamin H1144, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 -

Of the sons H1121 of Dan H1835, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 -

Of the sons H1121 of Asher H836, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 -

Of the sons H1121 of Naphtali H5321, their descendants H8435 by their families H4940, by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, according to the number H4557 of names H8034, from twenty H6242 years H8141 old H1121 and upward H4605, whoever H3605 was able to go H3318 to war H6635,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - So the sons H1121 of Israel H3478 did H6213 all this; according to all H3605 that the LORD H3068 commanded H6680 Moses H4872, so H3651 they camped H2583 by their flags H1714, and so H3651 they set H5265 out H5265, everyone H376 by his family H4940 according H5921 to his father’s H1 household H1004.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - [fn]Count H6485 the sons H1121 of Levi H3878 by their fathers’ H1 households H1004, by their families H4940; every H3605 male H2145 from a month H2320 old H1121 and upward H4605 you shall count H6485.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:18 - And these H428 are the names H8034 of the sons H1121 of Gershon H1648 by their families H4940: Libni H3845 and Shimei H8096;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:19 - and the sons H1121 of Kohath H6955 by their families H4940: Amram H6019 and Izhar H3324, Hebron H2275 and Uzziel H5816;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - and the sons H1121 of Merari H4847 by their families H4940: Mahli H4249 and Mushi H4187. These H428 are the families H4940 of the Levites H3881 according to their fathers’ H1 households H1004.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:21 -

Of Gershon H1648 was the family H4940 of the Libnites H3846 and the family H4940 of the Shimeites H8097; these H428 were the families H4940 of the Gershonites H1649.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:23 - The families H4940 of the Gershonites H1649 were to camp H2583 behind H310 the [fn]tabernacle H4908 westward H3220,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:27 -

Of Kohath H6955 was the family H4940 of the Amramites H6020, the family H4940 of the Izharites H3325, the family H4940 of the Hebronites H2276, and the family H4940 of the Uzzielites H5817; these H428 were the families H4940 of the Kohathites H6956.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families H4940 of the sons H1121 of Kohath H6955 were to camp H2583 on the south H8486 side H3409 of the tabernacle H4908,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - and the leader H5387 of the fathers’ H1 households H1004 of the Kohathite H6956 families H4940: [fn]Elizaphan H469 the son H1121 of Uzziel H5816.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:33 -

Of Merari H4847 was the family H4940 of the Mahlites H4250 and the family H4940 of the Mushites H4188; these H428 were the families H4940 of Merari H4847.


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