מִשְׁמֶ֫רֶת

mish.me.ret · charge

Hebrew · Strong's H4931 · Noun · Sounds like: mish-mer'-reth · 78 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

feminine of מִשְׁמָר; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party; charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מִשְׁמֶ֫רֶת 78 n.f. guard, watch, also charge, function

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 22:23 מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing

    Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

  2. 2 Samuel 20:3 מִשְׁמֶ֙רֶת֙ mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing

    And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  3. 1 Kings 2:3 מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת׀ mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.

  4. 2 Kings 11:5 מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

  5. 2 Kings 11:6 מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And a third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

  6. 2 Kings 11:7 מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

  7. 1 Chronicles 9:23 לְמִשְׁמָרֽוֹת׃ le.mish.ma.Rot · A person, place or thing

    So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Jehovah, even the house of the tent, by wards.

  8. 1 Chronicles 9:27 מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing

    And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them; and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.

  9. 1 Chronicles 12:29 מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

  10. 1 Chronicles 23:32 מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

  11. 1 Chronicles 23:32 מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

  12. 1 Chronicles 23:32 וּמִשְׁמֶ֕רֶת u.mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

  13. 1 Chronicles 25:8 מִשְׁמֶ֗רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing

    And they cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

  14. 1 Chronicles 26:12 מִשְׁמָר֖וֹת mish.ma.Rot · A person, place or thing

    Of these were the courses of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brethren, to minister in the house of Jehovah.

  15. 2 Chronicles 7:6 מִשְׁמְרוֹתָ֣ם mish.me.ro.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Jehovah, which David the king had made to give thanks unto Jehovah, (for his lovingkindness endureth for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

  16. 2 Chronicles 8:14 מִ֠שְׁמְרוֹתָם Mish.me.ro.tom · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

  17. 2 Chronicles 13:11 מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and they burn unto Jehovah every morning and every evening burnt-offerings and sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Jehovah our God; but ye have forsaken him.

  18. 2 Chronicles 23:6 מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת mish.Me.ret · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But let none come into the house of Jehovah, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the charge of Jehovah.

  19. 2 Chronicles 31:16 בְּמִשְׁמְרוֹתָ֖ם be.mish.me.ro.Tam · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even every one that entered into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their courses;

  20. 2 Chronicles 31:17 בְּמִשְׁמְרוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם be.mish.me.ro.tei.Hem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and them that were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their courses;

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