מִשְׁמָרmishmâr

place of confinement, goal, prison, guard, watch, observance

Pronunciation: mish-mawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4929

Meanings

1. goal, prison (Genesis 40:3; Genesis 40:4; Genesis 40:7)

2. guard (Jeremiah 51:12; Nehemiah 4:3; Nehemiah 4:16)

3. observances, services, of temple (Nehemiah 13:14)

Same root

שָׁמַרshâmar · H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
מִשְׁמֶרֶתmishmereth · H4931watch, 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

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

Genesis 40:3 and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.
Genesis 40:4 They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.
Genesis 40:7 “Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them.
Genesis 41:10 “Some time ago, you were angry with the chief baker and me, and you imprisoned us in the palace of the captain of the guard.
Genesis 42:17 So Joseph put them all in prison for three days.
Genesis 42:19 If you really are honest men, choose one of your brothers to remain in prison. The rest of you may go home with grain for your starving families.

See every passage

Genesis 40:3, 40:4, 40:7, 41:10, 42:17, 42:19
Leviticus 24:12
Numbers 15:34
1 Chronicles 26:16
Nehemiah 4:9, 4:22, 4:23, 7:3, 12:24, 12:25, 13:14
Job 7:12
Proverbs 4:23
Jeremiah 51:12
Ezekiel 38:7

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).