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:
1 Chronicles 23:32: "the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron"
1 Chronicles 23:32: "of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service"
1 Chronicles 25:8: "And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as"
1 Chronicles 26:12: "of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house"
2 Chronicles 7:6: "And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests,"
2 Chronicles 13:11: "thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge"
2 Chronicles 23:6: "are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 31:16: "into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;"
2 Chronicles 31:17: "years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;"
2 Chronicles 35:2: "And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,"
Nehemiah 7:3: "the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch,"
Nehemiah 12:9: "and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches."
Nehemiah 12:45: "And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment"
Nehemiah 12:45: "kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon"
Nehemiah 13:30: "I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one"
Isaiah 21:8: "and I am set in my ward whole nights:"
Ezekiel 40:45: "the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house."
Ezekiel 40:46: "the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok"
Ezekiel 44:8: "And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary"
Ezekiel 44:8: "of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary"
Ezekiel 44:14: "But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that"
Ezekiel 44:15: "that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray"
Ezekiel 44:16: "to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge."
Ezekiel 48:11: "of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray"
Habakkuk 2:1: "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see"
Zechariah 3:7: "and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge"
Malachi 3:14: "profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before"
