Strong's Hebrew · H4929
H4929 mishmâr
מִשְׁמָר
mish-mawr'
custody
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mishmâr appears 22 times in Scripture, including Genesis 40:3 and Leviticus 24:12. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely)
In the King James Version
diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Derivation
from H8104 (שָׁמַר);
Appears 22 times in Scripture
“and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.”
“Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.”
“Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.”
“The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,”
“They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.”
“If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.”
“So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?””
“So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,”
“Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.”
“and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
