Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4929
מִשְׁמָר
mish.mar · “custody”
Used 22 times across 9 books
Definition
1) place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observance
1a) jail, prison, guard-house
1b) guard, guard post, act of guarding
1c) observances
1a) jail, prison, guard-house
1b) guard, guard post, act of guarding
1c) observances
Where it appears
Genesis6
Leviticus1
Numbers1
1 Chronicles2
Nehemiah8
Job1
Proverbs1
Jeremiah1
Ezekiel1
In the text
Genesis 40:3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.Genesis 40:4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.Genesis 40:7And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:Genesis 42:17And he put them all together into ward three days.Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:Leviticus 24:12And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.Numbers 15:34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.1 Chronicles 26:16To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.Nehemiah 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
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