מִשְׁמַעַת
mishmaʻath · H4928 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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subjects
Literally: the ones who listen; hence: a group of people who have been forced into obedience by others
ExamplesIsaiah 11:14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they will plunder the people of the east; They will possess Edom and Moab, And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.
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Elite group of soldiers, responsible for protecting high-ranking officials (guard, bodyguard (both in the collective sense))
Examples1 Samuel 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s own son-in-law, who is commander over your bodyguard, and is honored in your house?
2 Samuel 23:23 He was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain the reputation of the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard.
1 Chronicles 11:25 Behold, he was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain the reputation of the first three; and David appointed him over his bodyguard.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּhis 2
- ךָyour 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵלto, toward 4
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Control002003002007
- The word denotes subjection or being made subject to another's authority, as Edom, Moab, and Ammon becoming subject to Israel.
- Soldiers001001003013
- The word denotes a bodyguard, a company of soldiers assigned to protect a king, as David's own bodyguard.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4928. mishmaath [מִשְׁמַ֫עַת] noun feminine obedient band, body of subjects; — only…
[מִשְׁמַ֫עַת] noun feminine obedient band, body of subjects; — only suffix:
1 probably = body-guard, as especially bound to obedience, מִשְׁמַעְתּ֑ךָ 1Sa 22:14 captain over thy guard (Ew BeCh Dr Bu Now), compare תּוֺ- 2Sa 23:23 = 1Ch 11:25.
2 תָּם- Isa 11:14 the sons of Ammon (shall be) their subjects (|| מוֺאָב; יָדָם מִשְׁלוֺחַ; compare משמעת MI28).
שׁמץ (√ of following; compare Late Hebrew שֵׁמֶץ accusation (or suspicion); Thes compare Arabic speak rapidly (and indistinctly) (†am Frey); but dubious; rapidity seems main idea; — and שׁ = ?).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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