Mishpachah מִשְׁפָּחָה

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Mishpachah
מִשְׁפָּחָה
Transliterationmishpachah
Strong's numberH4940
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossfamily
Occurrences303 in 224 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (94)

Mishpachah (Hebrew מִשְׁפָּחָה, Strong's H4940) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “family”. It occurs 303 times in 224 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) clan, family
1a) clan
1a1) family
1a2) tribe
1a3) people, nation
1b) guild
1c) species, kind
1d) aristocrats

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVfamilies (169), family (119), kindred (6), kindreds (3), kinds (2), every family (1)
BSBclan (91), clans (76), their clans (42), families (12), family (9), were the clans (8), his clan (6), according to their clans (3), my kindred (3), his family (2), within a clan (2), o families (2), and 24 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Mishpachah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Amos

Micah

Nahum

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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