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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #4940 - מִשְׁפָּחָה
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2863) hps (סהפהה ShPHh) AC: Join CO: ? AB: ?: [from: hp]
ef1 ) ehpis (סהיפההה ShYPHhH) - Maid: As joined to a mistress. KJV (63): handmaid, maid, maidservant, bondwoman, maiden, womanservant, bondmaid, servant, wench - Strongs: H8198 (שִׁפְחָה)
hf1) ehpsm (מסהפההה MShPHhH) - Family: As joined together. KJV (300): family, kindred, kinds - Strongs: H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
מִשְׁפָּחָה constr. מִשְׁפַּחַת, with suff. מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי, pl. מִשְׁפָּחוֹת Psalms 107:41, constr. and with suff. מִשְׁפְּחוֹת f. (from the root שָׁפַח, which see).
(1) genus, kind (of animals), Genesis 8:19 also used of inanimate things, Jeremiah 15:3.
(2) gens, tribe, Genesis 10:18, 20 Genesis 10:20, 31 Genesis 10:31, 32 Genesis 10:32, 12:3 also used of a whole people, Ezekiel 20:32; Jeremiah 8:3, 25:9 Micah 2:3. In the subdivisions of the people of Israel
(3) in a narrower sense, it denotes specially a family, of which several were comprehended in one tribe (שֵׁבֶט), so on the other hand one family included several fathers’ houses (בֵּית אָבוֹת see p. 116, B ), Exodus 6:14, seq.; Numbers 1:2, 20, seq.; 26:5, seq.; Deuteronomy 29:17; Joshua 7:14, seq.; 21:5, seq.; 1 Samuel 20:29, זֶבַח מִשְׁפָּחָה לָנוּ “we have a family sacrifice.” It is sometimes less exactly put for שֵׁבֶט as Joshua 7:17, מִשְׁפַּחַת יְהוּדָה for the preceding שֵׁבֶט יְהוּדָה.
the Fourth Week after Epiphany