Strong’s H4928 · Hebrew
מִשְׁמַעַת
mishmaʻath · mish-mah'-ath
Origin feminine of מִשְׁמָע (H4926);
Meaning audience, i.e. the royal court; also obedience, i.e. (concretely) a subject
In the King James Version bidding, guard, obey.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
- 2 Samuel 23:23He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
- 1 Chronicles 11:25Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
- Isaiah 11:14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.