מִשְׁפָּחָהmishpâchâh
clan
Pronunciation: mish-paw-khaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4940
Meanings
1. clan
a. family connection of individual (Genesis 24:38; Genesis 24:40; Genesis 24:41)
b. in loose, popular sense = tribe (Judges 13:2; Judges 17:7; Judges 18:19)
c. technical divisions of people of Israel (Numbers 11:10; Jeremiah 2:4; Jeremiah 31:1)
d. technical divisions of tribes of Israel (Exodus 6:14; Exodus 6:15; Exodus 6:25)
e. division of other peoples (1 Chronicles 16:28; Psalms 96:7; Psalms 22:28)
f. in wider sense = people, nation (Amos 3:2; Genesis 12:3; Genesis 28:14)
2. = guild (1 Chronicles 2:55)
3. = species, kind
b animals (Genesis 8:19)
4. plural = aristocrats (Job 31:34)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 303 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 8:19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
- Genesis 10:5 Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.
- Genesis 10:18 Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out,
- Genesis 10:20 These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.
- Genesis 10:31 These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.
- Genesis 10:32 Conclusion These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.
See every passage
- Genesis 8:19, 10:5, 10:18, 10:20, 10:31, 10:32, 12:3, 24:38, 24:40, 24:41, 28:14, 36:40
- Exodus 6:14, 6:15, 6:17, 6:19, 6:24, 6:25, 12:21
- Leviticus 20:5, 25:10, 25:41, 25:45, 25:47, 25:49
- Numbers 1:2, 1:18, 1:20, 1:22, 1:24, 1:26, 1:28, 1:30, 1:32, 1:34, 1:36, 1:38, 1:40, 1:42, 2:34, 3:15, 3:18, 3:19, 3:20, 3:21, 3:23, 3:27, 3:29, 3:30, 3:33, 3:35, 3:39, 4:2, 4:18, 4:22, 4:24, 4:28, 4:29, 4:33, 4:34, 4:36, 4:37, 4:38, 4:40, 4:41, 4:42, 4:44, 4:45, 4:46, 11:10, 26:5, 26:6, 26:7, 26:12, 26:13, 26:14, 26:15, 26:16, 26:17, 26:18, 26:20, 26:21, 26:22, 26:23, 26:24, 26:25, 26:26, 26:27, 26:28, 26:29, 26:30, 26:31, 26:32, 26:34, 26:35, 26:36, 26:37, 26:38, 26:39, 26:40, 26:41, 26:42, 26:43, 26:44, 26:45, 26:47, 26:48, 26:49, 26:50, 26:57, 26:58, 27:1, 27:4, 27:11, 33:54, 36:1, 36:6, 36:8, 36:12
- Deuteronomy 29:18
- Joshua 6:23, 7:14, 7:17, 13:15, 13:23, 13:24, 13:28, 13:29, 13:31, 15:1, 15:12, 15:20, 16:5, 16:8, 17:2, 18:11, 18:20, 18:21, 18:28, 19:1, 19:8, 19:10, 19:16, 19:17, 19:23, 19:24, 19:31, 19:32, 19:39, 19:40, 19:48, 21:4, 21:5, 21:6, 21:7, 21:10, 21:20, 21:26, 21:27, 21:33, 21:34, 21:40
- Judges 1:25, 9:1, 13:2, 17:7, 18:2, 18:11, 18:19, 21:24
- Ruth 2:1, 2:3
- 1 Samuel 9:21, 10:21, 18:18, 20:6, 20:29
- 2 Samuel 14:7, 16:5
- 1 Chronicles 2:53, 2:55, 4:2, 4:8, 4:21, 4:27, 4:38, 5:7, 6:19, 6:54, 6:60, 6:61, 6:62, 6:63, 6:66, 6:70, 6:71, 7:5, 16:28
- Nehemiah 4:13
- Esther 9:28
- Job 31:34, 32:2
- Psalms 22:27, 96:7, 107:41
- Jeremiah 1:15, 2:4, 3:14, 8:3, 10:25, 15:3, 25:9, 31:1, 33:24
- Ezekiel 20:32
- Amos 3:1, 3:2
- Micah 2:3
- Nahum 3:4
- Zechariah 12:12, 12:13, 12:14, 14:17, 14:18
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).