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Strong's #4940 - מִשְׁפָּחָה
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- clan, family
- clan
- family
- tribe
- people, nation
- guild
- species, kind
- aristocrats
- clan
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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.
1 clan:
a. family connection of individual Genesis 24:38 (+ בֵּיתאָֿבִי), Genesis 24:40 ( + id.), Genesis 24:41 (all J; = מוֺלַדְתִּי Genesis 24:4), 2 Samuel 14:7, united in sacrifice 1 Samuel 20:6,29, in passover Exodus 12:21 (J E; compare Benz Ency.Bib. PASSOVER, §§ 9,12); compare Leviticus 20:5 (H), Leviticus 25:10,41 (P), Leviticus 25:49 (P; defined as מִשְּׁאֵר בְּשָׂרוֺ), non-Hebrew Leviticus 25:47 (H), Leviticus 25:45(P), Judges 1:25; מִשְׁמְּחוֺתֶיהָ Joshua 6:23 (E or R) is unintelligible, probably strike out (compare Steuern Holz; בֵּיתאָבִיהָ in Joshua 6:25 [J]), compare Numbers 27:4,11 (P); בֵּית אֲבִי אִמּוֺ׳מ Judges 9:1 clan of his mother's father-house; including individuals, and included by שֵׁבֶט 1 Samuel 9:21 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:21; with specific name, in series גֶבֶר, בַּיִת, ׳מ, שֵׁבֶט Joshua 7:14 (twice in verse); Joshua 7:17b, c (all J; Joshua 7:17 a read plural Di Benn, or שֵׁבֶט GFM Judges 13:2; Steuern allows either); compare Deuteronomy 29:17; Judges 21:24, ׳אָבִי בְּיִשׂ׳מ 1 Samuel 1:18 (+ חַיַּי, see II [חַי]; בֵּיתשָֿׁאוּל׳אִישׁמִ֗֗֗מּ 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; Judges 17:7; Judges 18:19, compare Judges 18:2 ("" שֵׁבֶט Judges 18:1), Judges 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; Jeremiah 31:1; compare Jeremiah 3:14; Numbers 1:2,18; Numbers 2:34; Numbers 33:54 (all P), so (post-exilic) Nehemiah 4:7: Esther 9:28 (מְדִינָה, ׳מ, דּוֺר).
d. usually (P) technical divisions of tribes of Israel, Exodus 6:14,15,25; Numbers 3:15 112t. Numbers (93t. Numbers 26, including Numbers 3:43 where הַשּׁוּחָמִי apparently = Dan), 34t. Joshua 13-21; also 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 6:45; 1 Chronicles 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) Numbers 3:21 (twice in verse) + 6t. Numbers 3 + Numbers 4:18; compare (in other tribes) 1 Chronicles 2:53; 1 Chronicles 4:2,8,21,27,38; 1 Chronicles 5:7; also Zechariah 12:12b. c 13 b 14a, and (distributive) Zechariah 12:12 a 14b, pleonastic מַטֵּה אֲבִיהֶם׳מ Numbers 36:6 compare Numbers 36:8, and (׳א׳מַטֵּה מ) Numbers 36:12.
e. late, divinity of other peoples 1 Chronicles 16:28 = Psalm 96:7; Psalm 22:28; in Edom Genesis 36:40 (P).
f. in wider sense=people, nation; כֹּל מִשְׁמְּחֹת תָאֲדָמָה Amos 3:2; Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14 (both J), compare Jeremiah 10:25; Ezekiel 20:32; Nahum 3:4 (all "" גּוֺיִם), Zechariah 14:17; Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 25:9; as one's posterity Genesis 10:30,31,32 (all P), so probably Genesis 10:5 (P; Di Dr); = all Israel Amos 3:1, Judah Micah 2:3; Jeremiah 8:3 (הָרָעָה הַזּאֹת׳הַמּ), Israel + Judah, ׳שְׁתֵּי הַמּ Jeremiah 33:24; מִשְׁמַּחַת מִצְרַיִם 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.
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.