Strong's #4931: mishmereth (pronounced mish-mer'-reth)
fem. of 4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj. preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a usage or party:--charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mishmereth
1) guard, charge, function, obligation, service, watch
1a) guard, watch, house of detention or confinement
1b) keeping, preserving
1c) charge, injunction
1d) office, function (ceremonial)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H4929
Usage:
This word is used 78 times:
Genesis 26:5: "obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Exodus 12:6: " And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month:"
Exodus 16:23: "and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."
Exodus 16:32: "Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see"
Exodus 16:33: "and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations."
Exodus 16:34: "so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept."
Leviticus 8:35: "days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for"
Leviticus 18:30: "Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs,"
Leviticus 22:9: "They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die"
Numbers 1:53: "and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony."
Numbers 3:7: "And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle"
Numbers 3:7: "And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle"
Numbers 3:8: "the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do"
Numbers 3:25: " And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering"
Numbers 3:28: "thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary."
Numbers 3:31: " And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith"
Numbers 3:32: "of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary."
Numbers 3:36: "And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars"
Numbers 3:38: "and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel;"
Numbers 3:38: "keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh"
Numbers 4:27: "their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens."
Numbers 4:28: "of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron"
Numbers 4:31: "And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards"
Numbers 4:32: "ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden."
Numbers 8:26: "in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus"
Numbers 8:26: "Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge."
Numbers 9:19: "of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not."
Numbers 9:23: "they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD"
Numbers 17:10: "rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away"
Numbers 18:3: "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh"
Numbers 18:3: "And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh"
Numbers 18:4: "unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service"
Numbers 18:5: "And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no"
Numbers 18:5: "the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath"
Numbers 18:8: "I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children"
Numbers 19:9: "the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel"
Numbers 31:30: "of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD."
Numbers 31:47: "beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as"
Deuteronomy 11:1: "the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always."
Joshua 22:3: "day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God."
1 Samuel 22:23: "but with me thou shalt be in safeguard."
2 Samuel 20:3: "to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not"
1 Kings 2:3: "And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep"
2 Kings 11:5: "you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;"
2 Kings 11:6: "the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down."
2 Kings 11:7: "on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king."
1 Chronicles 9:23: "of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards."
1 Chronicles 9:27: "the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning"
1 Chronicles 12:29: "for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul."
1 Chronicles 23:32: "And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge"
