TBESH · H4940
מִשְׁפָּחָה · mish.pa.chah · family
1) clan, family 1a) clan 1a1) family 1a2) tribe 1a3) people, nation 1b) guild 1c) species, kind 1d) aristocrats
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mish.pa.chah H4940
מִשְׁפָּחָה (mish.pa.chah) means “family” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מִשְׁפָּחָה Hebrew · H4940 303 tagged occurrences in 224 verses
Pronunciation guide: mish-paw-khaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H8192 (שָׁפָה) (compare H8198 (שִׁפְחָה)); 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
KJV glosses: family, kind(-red).
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How translators render H4940
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| clan | 76 |
| by their clans | 29 |
| clans | 23 |
| of the clans | 15 |
| of their clans | 13 |
| the clans | 13 |
| were the clans | 12 |
| the families | 9 |
| for the clans | 8 |
| the clan | 5 |
| according to their clans | 4 |
| family | 4 |
| from the clan | 4 |
| to the clans | 4 |
| and clans | 3 |
| and the clan | 3 |
| and the clans | 3 |
| his clan | 3 |
| vvv | 3 |
| from his clan | 2 |
| my kindred | 2 |
| o families | 2 |
| within a clan | 2 |
| according to their families | 1 |
| according to your clans | 1 |
| all this was for the clans | 1 |
| among their families | 1 |
| and clan | 1 |
| and family | 1 |
| and his family | 1 |
| and is not my clan | 1 |
| and of the clans | 1 |
| and some of the clans | 1 |
| are the clans | 1 |
| belonged to the clans | 1 |
| by clans | 1 |
| by families | 1 |
| by its clans | 1 |
| clan by clan | 1 |
| clan from ard | 1 |
| clans were | 1 |
| each | 1 |
| families | 1 |
| for each family | 1 |
| from a family | 1 |
| from my kindred | 1 |
| from the family | 1 |
| from their clans | 1 |
| he had the clan | 1 |
| he had the clans | 1 |
| his family | 1 |
| included the clans | 1 |
| kind by kind | 1 |
| kinds of destroyers | 1 |
| like the peoples | 1 |
| nation | 1 |
| of family | 1 |
| of the clan | 1 |
| of the families | 1 |
| of the family | 1 |
| one of the clans | 1 |
| or their clans | 1 |
| our clan | 1 |
| the people | 1 |
| their families | 1 |
| with his clan | 1 |
| within the clan | 1 |
| within the clans | 1 |
| you families | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the family | 74 |
| after their families | 39 |
| according to their families | 26 |
| the families | 26 |
| of the families | 18 |
| by their families | 15 |
| of the family | 7 |
| throughout their families | 7 |
| and the family | 6 |
| and the families | 5 |
| all the families | 4 |
| family | 4 |
| of all the families | 3 |
| apart the family | 2 |
| every family | 2 |
| families | 2 |
| for the families | 2 |
| of the kindred | 2 |
| out of the families | 2 |
| according to the families | 1 |
| according to your families | 1 |
| after their kinds | 1 |
| against the whole family | 1 |
| all her kindred | 1 |
| among all the families | 1 |
| among your families | 1 |
| and a family | 1 |
| and against his family | 1 |
| and all his family | 1 |
| and all the families | 1 |
| and all the kindreds | 1 |
| and behold the whole family | 1 |
| and families | 1 |
| and if the family | 1 |
| and my family | 1 |
| and of their families | 1 |
| and to his family | 1 |
| and to my kindred | 1 |
| and unto the families | 1 |
| as the families | 1 |
| behold against this family | 1 |
| every | 1 |
| for the family | 1 |
| from thence of the family | 1 |
| his family | 1 |
| i pray thee for our family | 1 |
| in their families | 1 |
| into the families | 1 |
| kinds | 1 |
| neither did all their family | 1 |
| o ye kindreds | 1 |
| of a family | 1 |
| of families | 1 |
| of my kindred | 1 |
| of their family | 1 |
| of them after their families | 1 |
| of them by their families | 1 |
| of them throughout their families | 1 |
| only to the family | 1 |
| or family | 1 |
| out of the family | 1 |
| shall all the families | 1 |
| thee and in thee shall all families | 1 |
| thee not and upon the families | 1 |
| them after their families | 1 |
| there for all the family | 1 |
| to him of his family | 1 |
| to my kindred | 1 |
| unto him of his family | 1 |
| unto his family | 1 |
| unto his own family | 1 |
| were the families | 1 |
| with them and with all the family | 1 |
| ye kindreds | 1 |
Verses containing H4940
Page 5 of 5. 224 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Job 31:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Read word by word - Job 32:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
Read word by word - Psalms 22:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.28
- Psalms 96:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Read word by word - Psalms 107:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 1:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 10:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 15:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 25:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
Read word by word - Amos 3:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
Read word by word - Amos 3:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Read word by word - Micah 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Read word by word - Nahum 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
Read word by word - Zechariah 12:12
· BSB · 4 occurrences
The land will mourn, each clan on its own: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives,
Read word by word - Zechariah 12:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,
Read word by word - Zechariah 12:14
· BSB · 3 occurrences
and all the remaining clans and their wives.
Read word by word - Zechariah 14:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
Read word by word - Zechariah 14:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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