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Word Summary
mishpachah: a clan
Original Word: מִשְׁפָחָה
Transliteration: mishpachah
Phonetic Spelling: (mish-paw-khaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a clan
Meaning: a family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people
Strong's Concordance
family, kindred

From shaphah (compare shiphchah); a family, i.e. Circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extens. A tribe or people -- family, kind(-red).

see HEBREW shaphah

see HEBREW shiphchah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4940. mishpachah

מִשְׁמָּחָה‎: 303 noun feminine clan (RSSemitic 1. 258, 2nd ed. 276; K 149, 2nd ed. 175 BaNB § 161 a); — absolute ׳מ‎ Amos 3:1 +; construct מִשְׁמַּ֫חַת‎ Judges 9:1 +; suffix מִשְׁמַּחְתִּי‎ Genesis 24:38 +, etc.; plural מִשְׁמָּחוֺת‎ Nahum 3:4 +; construct מִשְׁמְּחוֺת‎ Amos 3:2 +; suffix מִשְׁמְּחֹתֵיהֶם‎ Genesis 8:19 2t., usually תָם‎- Numbers 1:18 84t., etc.; —

1 clan:

a. family connection of individual Genesis 24:38 (+ בֵּיתאָֿבִי‎), 24:40 ( + id.), 24:41 (all J; = מוֺלַדְתִּי‎ 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), 25:10, 41 (P), 25:49 (P; defined as בְּשָׂרוֺ מִשְּׁאֵר‎), non-Hebrew 25:47 (H), 25:45(P), Judges 1:25; מִשְׁמְּחוֺתֶיהָ‎ Joshua 6:23 (E or R) is unintelligible, probably strike out (compare Steuern Holz; אָבִיהָ בֵּית‎ in 6:25 [J]), compare Numbers 27:4, 11 (P); ׳מ אִמּוֺ אֲבִי בֵּית‎ Judges 9:1 clan of his mother's father-house; including individuals, and included by שֵׁבֶט‎ 1 Samuel 9:21 (twice in verse); 10:21; with specific name, in series שֵׁבֶט ׳מ, בַּיִת, גֶבֶר,‎ Joshua 7:14 (twice in verse); 7:17 b, c (all J; 7:17 a read plural Di Benn, or שֵׁבֶט‎ GFMJudges 13:2; Steuern allows either); compare Deuteronomy 29:17; Judges 21:24, ׳מ בְּיִשׂ ׳אָבִי‎ 1 Samuel 1:18 (+ חַיַּי‎, see II [חַי‎]; ׳אִישׁמִ֗֗֗מּ בֵּיתשָֿׁאוּל‎ 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; 17:7; 18:19, compare 18:2 ("" שֵׁבֶט‎ 18:1), 18:11 (yet in these two read possibly plural, see GFM).

c. techn. divisions of people of Israel Numbers 11:10 (J) Jeremiah 2:4; 31:1; compare 3:14; Numbers 1:2, 18; 2:34; 33:54 (all P), so (post-exilic) Nehemiah 4:7: Esther 9:28 (דּוֺר ׳מ, מְדִינָה,‎).

d. usually (P) technical divisions of tribes of Israel, Exodus 6:14-15, 25; Numbers 3:15 112t. Numbers (93 t. Numbers 26, including 3:43 where הַשּׁוּחָמִי‎ apparently = Dan), 34 t. Joshua 13-21; also 1 Chronicles 6:4; 6:45; 7:5; Zechariah 12:13; division of Gershom, etc. (in Levi) Numbers 3:18-19, 20 41t. Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Chronicles; subdivisions of these divisions (in Levi) 3:21 (twice in verse) + 6 t. Numbers 3 + 4:18; compare (in other tribes) 1 Chronicles 2:53; 4:2, 8, 21, 27, 38; 5:7; also Zechariah 12:12 b. c 13 b 14 a, and (distributive) 12:12 a 14 b, pleonastic ׳מ אֲבִיהֶם מַטֵּה‎ Numbers 36:6 compare 36:8, and (מ ׳מַטֵּה ׳א‎) 36:12.

e. late, divinity of other peoples 1 Chronicles 16:28 = Psalm 96:7; 22:28; in Edom Genesis 36:40 (P).

f. in wider sense=people, nation; תָאֲדָמָה מִשְׁמְּחֹת כֹּל‎ Amos 3:2; Genesis 12:3; 28:14 (both J), compare Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 20:32; Nahum 3:4 (all "" גּוֺיִם‎), Zechariah 14:17; Jeremiah 1:15; 25:9; as one's posterity Genesis 10:30-31, 32 (all P), so probably 10:5 (P; Di Dr); = all Israel Amos 3:1, Judah Micah 2:3; Jeremiah 8:3 (׳הַמּ הַזּאֹת הָרָעָה‎), Israel + Judah, הַמּ ׳שְׁתֵּי‎ 33:24; מִצְרַיִם מִשְׁמַּחַת‎ 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').

שֻׁמִּים‎

proper name, masculine see √ שׁפף‎.





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