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Joshua 21:34
“And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4940 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
- Derivation
- from H8192 (שָׁפָה) (compare H8198 (שִׁפְחָה));
- KJV renderings
- family, kind(-red).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְ — preposition
- מִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת — common noun, feminine, plural, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 304 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:19Genesis 10:5Genesis 10:18Genesis 10:20Genesis 10:31
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מִשְׁפָּחָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.