H4940 · מִשְׁפָּחָה
mishpâchâh · mish-paw-khaw' · families, kindred, kinds
H4940 (mishpâchâh, pronounced mish-paw-khaw') is the Hebrew word מִשְׁפָּחָה in Strong’s dictionary: a family, i.e. circle of relatives. It appears 303 times in 224 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מִשְׁפָּחָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mishpâchâh
- Pronunciation
- mish-paw-khaw'
- Derivation
- from H8192 (שָׁפָה) (compare H8198 (שִׁפְחָה));
- Definition
- a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
- Rendered in the KJV
- family, kind(-red).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
303 occurrences in 224 verses (285 with English words of their own, 18 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “clan” ×76
- “by their clans” ×29
- “clans” ×23
- “of the clans” ×15
- “of their clans” ×13
- “the clans” ×12
- “were the clans” ×12
- “the families” ×9
By book
Genesis 12 · Exodus 7 · Leviticus 6 · Numbers 94 · Deuteronomy 1 · Joshua 42 · Judges 8 · Ruth 2 · 1 Samuel 5 · 2 Samuel 2 · 1 Chronicles 19 · Nehemiah 1 · Esther 1 · Job 2 · Psalms 3 · Jeremiah 9 · Ezekiel 1 · Amos 2 · Micah 1 · Nahum 1 · Zechariah 5
First 30 of 224 verses
- Genesis 8:19
- Genesis 10:5
- Genesis 10:18
- Genesis 10:20
- Genesis 10:31
- Genesis 10:32
- Genesis 12:3
- Genesis 24:38
- Genesis 24:40
- Genesis 24:41
- Genesis 28:14
- Genesis 36:40
- Exodus 6:14
- Exodus 6:15
- Exodus 6:17
- Exodus 6:19
- Exodus 6:24
- Exodus 6:25
- Exodus 12:21
- Leviticus 20:5
- Leviticus 25:10
- Leviticus 25:41
- Leviticus 25:45
- Leviticus 25:47
- Leviticus 25:49
- Numbers 1:2
- Numbers 1:18
- Numbers 1:20
- Numbers 1:22
- Numbers 1:24
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4940.