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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').
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 304 times in 224 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Num 3:35–Num 26:40)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - The leader of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2 - “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the children of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - “Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:22 - “Also take a census of the sons of Gershon, by their fathers’ house, by their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24 - “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:28 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And their duties shall be under the authority[fn] of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:29 - “As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:33 - “This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the authority[fn] of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:34 - And Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - and those who were numbered by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:37 - These were the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:38 - And those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families and by their fathers’ house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40 - those who were numbered by their families, by their fathers’ house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:41 - These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:42 - Those of the families of the sons of Merari who were numbered, by their families, by their fathers’ house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:44 - those who were numbered by their families were three thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:45 - These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben were: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:6 - of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites: those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:12 - The sons of Simeon according to their families were: of Nemuel,[fn] the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin,[fn] the family of the Jachinites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:13 - of Zerah,[fn] the family of the Zarhites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the families of the Simeonites: twenty-two thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:15 - The sons of Gad according to their families were: of Zephon,[fn] the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:16 - of Ozni,[fn] the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:17 - of Arod,[fn] the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them: forty thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 - And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:21 - And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them: seventy-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:23 - The sons of Issachar according to their families were: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah,[fn] the family of the Punites;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:24 - of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25 - These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them: sixty-four thousand three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:26 - The sons of Zebulun according to their families were: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 - These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them: sixty thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28 - The sons of Joseph according to their families, by Manasseh and Ephraim, were:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:29 - The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:30 - These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer,[fn] the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:31 - of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:32 - of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 - These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35 - These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher,[fn] the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:36 - And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin according to their families were: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:39 - of Shupham,[fn] the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham,[fn] the family of the Huphamites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:40 - And the sons of Bela were Ard[fn] and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

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