מִשְׁמַעַת
mishmaat · audience, guard, obedience
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4928 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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mishmaat (מִשְׁמַעַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “audience, guard, obedience”.
What is heard and obeyed: the king's audience or personal guard, or obedience to his orders. Its sense in 1 Samuel 22:14 is not certain.
How to say it
mish·ma·at
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
- Men who protect the king.
- To be under someone's hand and carry out what he commands.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- guard ×2
- orders ×1
- subjects ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 22:14
Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is like David, faithful, and the king’s son-in-law, who comes at your orders, and honored in your house?
- 2 Samuel 23:23
Than the thirty he was more honored, but to the three he did not attain. And David set him over his guard.
- 1 Chronicles 11:25
He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his guard.
- Isaiah 11:14
And they will swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east; Edom and Moab will be the reach of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their subjects.