Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
custody
Usage: 1) place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observance 1a) jail, prison, guard-house 1b) guard, guard post, act of guarding 1c) observances
Mishmar means “guard” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4929 — syntasso (“appoint”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4929 מִשׁמָר (mishmar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mishmar (mish-mawr') n-m. 1. a guard (the man, the post or the prison) 2. (figuratively) a deposit It has 20 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include guard, your, and man. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mishmar (mish-mawr') n-m. 1. a guard (the man, the post or the prison) 2. (figuratively) a deposit 3. (as observed, abstractly) a usage 4. (as observed, concretely) an example [from H8104] KJV: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch. Root(s): H8104
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4929. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
custody
Usage: 1) place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observance 1a) jail, prison, guard-house 1b) guard, guard post, act of guarding 1c) observances
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mishmar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
And 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?
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4929.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
And 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?
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
And he put them all together into ward three days.
If 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:
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Likewise 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.
So 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
Remember 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.
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Set 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.
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4929, grouped by book.
Mishmar (Strong's H4929) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "guard". mishmar (mish-mawr') n-m. 1. a guard (the man, the post or the prison) 2. (figuratively) a deposit
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H4929 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4929 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as guard, your, and man. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.