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Strong’s H4929 · Hebrew

מִשְׁמָר

mishmâr · mish-mawr'

Origin from שָׁמַר (H8104);

Meaning 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.

In 20 verses of the King James Version

  1. 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.
  2. Genesis 40:4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
  3. 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?
  4. 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:
  5. Genesis 42:17And he put them all together into ward three days.
  6. 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:
  7. Leviticus 24:12And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
  8. Numbers 15:34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
  9. 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.
  10. Nehemiah 4:9Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
  11. Nehemiah 4:22Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.
  12. Nehemiah 4:23So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
  13. Nehemiah 7:3And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
  14. Nehemiah 12:24And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
  15. Nehemiah 12:25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
  16. Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
  17. Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
  18. Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
  19. Jeremiah 51:12Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
  20. Ezekiel 38:7Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto 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.

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