Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4928
מִשְׁמַעַת
mishmaathmish-mah'-ath
guard
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mishmaʻath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4928is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4928
audience, i.e. the royal court; also obedience, i.e. (concretely) a subject
The King James renders it: bidding, guard, obey.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mishmaath is rendered "guard". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 22:14Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
1 Samuel 22:14מִשְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ךָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bodyguard his2
- bodyguard your1
- subjects their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִשְׁפָּט | mishpat | justice: judgement | Uses422 |
| מִשְׁפָּחָה | mishpachah | family | Uses303 |
| מִשְׁכָּן | mishkan | tabernacle | Uses139 |
| מִשְׁמֶרֶת | mishmereth | charge | Uses78 |
| מִשְׁקָל | mishqal | weight | Uses49 |
| מִשְׁכָּב | mishkab | bed | Uses46 |
| מִשְׁתֶּה | mishteh | feast | Uses46 |
| מִשְׁנֶה | mishneh | Second [Quarter] | Uses35 |
| מִשְׁחָה | mishchah | anointing | Uses26 |
| מִשְׁמָר | mishmar | custody | Uses22 |
| מִשְׂגָּב | misgab | high refuge | Uses17 |
| מִשְׁעֵנָה | mishenah | support | Uses12 |
and 25 more on the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ׃ ס2
- מִשְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ךָ1
- מִשְׁמַעְתָּֽם׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
1 Samuel
one use
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
- מִשְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ךָmishma'tekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: bodyguard your
2 Samuel
one use
He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
- מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ׃ סmishma'tonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bodyguard his
1 Chronicles
one use
He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
- מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ׃ סmishma'tonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bodyguard his
Isaiah
one use
They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
- מִשְׁמַעְתָּֽם׃mishma'tamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: subjects their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.