Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4940: מִשְׁפָּחָה (mishpâchâh) Definition

Strong's number
H4940
Lemma
מִשְׁפָּחָה
Transliteration
mishpâchâh
Pronunciation
mish-paw-khaw'
Strong's 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 family, kind(-red). from H8192 (שָׁפָה) (compare H8198 (שִׁפְחָה));

224 instances of the word מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpâchâh (H4940)


  • Genesis 10:18 - And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite and afterward spread abroad were the families of the Canaanites

  • Genesis 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham after their families after their tongues in their countries and in their nations

  • Genesis 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem after their families after their tongues in their lands after their nations

  • Genesis 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations and by these were the nations divided and by these were the nations in the earth after the flood

  • Genesis 12:3 - And I will bless And I will bless him that curseth thee and curse And I will bless thee and in thee shall all families of the earth

  • Genesis 24:38 - But house unto my father's and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son

  • Genesis 24:40 - And he said unto me The LORD whom I walk before will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred house and of my father's

  • Genesis 24:41 - Then shalt thou be clear from my oath when thou comest to my kindred and if they give not thee one thou shalt be clear from my oath

  • 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 be blessed shall all the families of the earth And thy seed

  • Genesis 36:40 - And these are the names duke that came of Esau according to their families after their places And these are the names duke Timnah duke Alvah duke Jetheth

  • Jeremiah 1:15 - For lo I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north saith the LORD and they shall come and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem and against all the walls thereof round about and against all the cities of Judah

  • Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear ye the word of the LORD O house of Jacob and all the families O house of Israel

  • Jeremiah 3:14 - Turn children O backsliding 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 8:3 - shall be chosen And death rather than life by all the residue of them that remain family of this evil in all the places of them that remain whither I have driven them saith the LORD of hosts

  • Jeremiah 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not and upon the families not on thy name that call and devoured Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his habitation desolate

  • Jeremiah 15:3 - And I will appoint over them four kinds saith the LORD the sword to slay and the dogs to tear and the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy

  • 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 this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and an hissing desolations and perpetual

  • 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 my people have spoken saying The two families hath chosen which the LORD he hath even cast them off my people thus they have despised that they should be no more a nation before

  • Job 31:34 - Did I fear multitude a great or did the contempt of families terrify me that I kept silence and went not out of the door