mishmar · custody, guard

What it means

mishmar (מִשְׁמָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “custody, guard”.

Custody, watch; the place where someone is kept under guard; also a charge or duty to keep.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A place where a prisoner is kept.
2. The service of watching over a place, with men posted there.
3. The service each one has to carry out in the house of God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• guard ×8
• custody ×7
• watch ×4
• charges ×1
• guarded ×1
• where you are held ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×8
• Job×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 40:3

  and he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

• Genesis 40:4

  The chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them; and they were some days in custody.

• Genesis 40:7

  He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his lord’s house, saying, “Why are your faces sad today?”

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

• Genesis 42:17

  He gathered them into custody for three days.

• Genesis 42:19

  If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be held prisoner in the house where you are held, and you go, take grain for the hunger of your households.

• Leviticus 24:12

  And they put him in custody, to make the matter clear to them by the mouth of YHWH.

• Numbers 15:34

  And they put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.

• 1 Chronicles 26:16

  For Shuppim and for Hosah, the west, by the gate of Shallecheth on the causeway that goes up, guard alongside guard.

• Nehemiah 4:9

  But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a guard against them day and night because of them.

• Nehemiah 4:22

  Also at that time I said to the people, “Each man and his young man is to spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they may be for us by night a guard, and by day work.”

• Nehemiah 4:23

  So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my young men, nor the men of the guard who were behind me— none of us took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even at the water.

• Nehemiah 7:3

  And I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot; and while they are standing, let them shut the doors and bar them; and appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his guard and each in front of his house.”

• Nehemiah 12:24

  And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of Elohim, watch opposite watch.

• Nehemiah 12:25

  Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were guards, gatekeepers, keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.

• Nehemiah 13:14

  Remember me, my Elohim, for this, and do not blot out my acts of loyal love that I have done in the house of my Elohim and in its charges.

• Job 7:12

  Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

• Proverbs 4:23

  More than all that is guarded, guard your heart, for from it come the outgoings of life.

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Against the walls of Babylon lift up a banner; strengthen the watch; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for YHWH has both purposed and done what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Ezekiel 38:7

  Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

And 2 more times.