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# מִשְׁמָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4929

**place of confinement** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

place of confinement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4929/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁמָר²: place of confinement, gaol, prison; late, guard, watch, observance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4929/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] place of confinement, gaol, prison; late, guard, watch, observance;—abs. מ׳ Gn 42:17 +; cstr. מִשְׁמַר 40:3 +; sf. מִשְׁמָרוֹ Ne 7:3, etc.; pl. sf. -רָיו 13:14;— gaol, prison, מ׳ בֵּית שַׂר הַטַּבָּחִים Gn 40:3, cf. v 4 (abs.), v 7; 41:10; 42:17 (abs.), + v 30 (𝔊), בֵּית מִשְׁמַרְכֶם v 19 (all E); guard-house in camp Lv 24:12 (P), Nu 15:34 (P). guard, Je 51:12; Ne 4:3, 16, אַנְשֵׁי הַמּ׳ v 17; guard-post 7:3; fig. of י׳ setting a guard, כִּי תָשִׂים עָלַי מ׳ Jb 7:12; band of (Levit.) guards or functionaries 1 Ch 26:16; Ne 12:24, 25 (cf. מִשְׁמֶרֶת); act of guarding, מִכָּל־מ׳ Pr 4:23 above all guarding watch thy heart.—לְמ׳ Ez 38:7 is doubtful, Hi Co Toy al. reserve; Krae לְמשֵׁל. pl. observances, services, of temple Ne 13:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: custody (4); guard (4); a guard (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 42:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.17/#tree)

וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף אֹתָ֛ם אֶל־מִשְׁמָ֖ר שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.removed them to custody three days

*JPS 1917:* And he put them all together into ward three days.

[Job 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.12/#tree)

הֲ‍ֽיָם־אָ֭נִי אִם־תַּנִּ֑ין כִּֽי־תָשִׂ֖ים עָלַ֣י מִשְׁמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[the\] sea? \[am\].I or? \[the\].sea.monster (cmp) you.will.set over me a.guard

*JPS 1917:* Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that Thou settest a watch over me?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4929.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4929/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).