מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah

Hebrew word for “family” · Strong’s H4940 · used 303 times in 224 verses

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Meaning

1) clan, family; 1a) clan; 1a1) family; 1a2) tribe; 1a3) people, nation; 1b) guild; 1c) species, kind; 1d) aristocrats

How it is translated

Glosses given for mishpachah in context, with how often each is used:

• clans 166
• clan 113
• family 9
• families 5
• tribe 3
• own clan 1
• one of the clans 1
• belonged to the clans 1
• clan? 1
• some of the clans 1
• kinds 1
• like the clans 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 26 (41), Numbers 4 (17), Numbers 1 (14), Numbers 3 (12), Joshua 19 (12), Joshua 21 (11), 1 Chronicles 6 (9), Exodus 6 (6), Joshua 13 (6), Genesis 10 (5)

Forms

• משׁפחת 117
• למשׁפחתם 74
• משׁפחות 20
• ממשׁפחת 14
• למשׁפחותם 9
• למשׁפחת 8
• ומשׁפחת 5
• המשׁפחה 5
• ומשׁפחות 5
• משׁפחתו 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mishpachah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 48
• מַטֶּה matteh “tribe” 34
• אָב av “father” 48
• פָּקַד paqad “to reckon” 29
• גּוֹרָל goral “allotted” 18
• עִיר ir “city” 31
• נַחֲלָה nachalah “inheritance” 20
• תּוֹלֵדוֹת toledah “generation” 15
• מְנַשֶּׁה menashsheh “Manasseh” 17
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 27
• שֵׁם shem “name” 24
• קְהָת qehat “Kohath” 12

Key verses

The verses using mishpachah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 12:3 — And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
• Genesis 28:14 — And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and…
• Leviticus 25:10 — And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye…
• Deuteronomy 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these…
• 2 Samuel 16:5 — And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth,…
• Psalms 22:27 — All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Jeremiah 3:14 — Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
• Jeremiah 10:25 — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and…
• Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against…
• Jeremiah 31:1 — At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• Jeremiah 33:24 — Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my…
• Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.