Strong's #4940: mishpachah (pronounced mish-paw-khaw')
from 8192 (compare 8198); 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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mishpâchâh
1) clan, family
1a) clan
1a1) family
1a2) tribe
1a3) people, nation
1b) guild
1c) species, kind
1d) aristocrats
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H8192 [compare H8198]
Usage:
This word is used 303 times:
2 Samuel 16:5: "thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul,"
1 Chronicles 2:53: " And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them"
1 Chronicles 2:55: " And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These"
1 Chronicles 4:2: "Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites."
1 Chronicles 4:8: "Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum."
1 Chronicles 4:21: "and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house"
1 Chronicles 4:27: "many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children"
1 Chronicles 4:38: "mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly."
1 Chronicles 5:7: "And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,"
1 Chronicles 6:19: "Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers."
1 Chronicles 6:54: "in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot."
1 Chronicles 6:60: "and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities."
1 Chronicles 6:61: "And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half"
1 Chronicles 6:62: "And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:63: "Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:66: " And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 6:70: "with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath."
1 Chronicles 6:71: "Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh,"
1 Chronicles 7:5: "And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies"
1 Chronicles 16:28: "Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength."
Nehemiah 4:13: "the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords,"
Esther 9:28: "and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province,"
Esther 9:28: "and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province,"
Job 31:34: "a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out"
Job 32:2: "the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath"
Psalms 22:27: "unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before"
Psalms 96:7: "Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength."
Psalms 107:41: "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock."
Jeremiah 1:15: "lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 2:4: "O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:"
Jeremiah 3:14: "you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:"
Jeremiah 8:3: "of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places"
Jeremiah 10:25: "know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name:"
Jeremiah 15:3: "And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword"
Jeremiah 25:9: "and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 31:1: "will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."
Jeremiah 33:24: "have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off?"
Ezekiel 20:32: "ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood"
Amos 3:1: "of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land"
Amos 3:2: "You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore"
Micah 2:3: "Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from"
Nahum 3:4: "the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts."
Zechariah 12:12: "And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David"
Zechariah 12:12: "And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David"
Zechariah 12:12: "shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart,"
Zechariah 12:12: "of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart,"
Zechariah 12:13: " The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei"
Zechariah 12:13: "apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;"
Zechariah 12:14: "All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart."
Zechariah 12:14: "All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart."
