Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4928: מִשְׁמַעַת

mishmaʻath · pronounced mish-mah'-ath · “guard”

Definition

audience, i.e. the royal court; also obedience, i.e. (concretely) a subject

KJV translates it as: bidding, guard, obey.

Word origin: feminine of H4926 (מִשְׁמָע);

Extended definition

1) subjects, body of subjects, bodyguard, listeners, obedient ones
1a) bodyguard
1b) subjects

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4928 is translated

  • his ×2
  • your ×1
  • their ×1

Bible verses with H4928 (mishmaʻath)

Mishmaʻath appears in 4 verses.

  • 1 Samuel 22:14

    Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

  • 2 Samuel 23:23

    He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:25

    Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

  • Isaiah 11:14

    But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.