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Words
מִשְׁמָר H4929
- Home gloss
- custody
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- ward
- Note
- Keeping under guard (40:3–4, 7; 41:10; 42:17, 19), and a guard-post (Neh 4:3). From שָׁמַר "keep"; "charge" is מִשְׁמֶרֶת's. "Ward" would sound like "steward"
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (6)
- 40:3 And he gave them into custody, in the house of the officer of the butchers, into the round-house, the place where Joseph was bound.
- 40:4 And the officer of the butchers appointed Joseph with them, and he ministered to them; and they were days in custody.
- 40:7 And he asked the eunuchs of Pharaoh who were with him in custody in the house of his lord, saying, "Why are your faces bad this day?"
- 41:10 Pharaoh was wrathful against his servants, and he gave me into custody in the house of the officer of the butchers, me and the officer of the bakers.
- 42:17 And he gathered them into custody three days.
- 42:19 If honest you are, let one brother of you be bound in the house of your custody; and you, go, bring rations for the hunger of your houses.