H4928 מִשְׁמַעַת (mishmaʻath) mish-mah'-ath

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

guard

Strong's Definition

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

Derivation: feminine of H4926 (מִשְׁמָע);

KJV Usage: bidding, guard, obey.

TWOT Reference: 2412g

Outline of Biblical Usage

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

1a) bodyguard

1b) subjects

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מִשְׁמַ֫עַת (mish.ma.at) — guard. 1) subjects, body of subjects, bodyguard, listeners, obedient ones 1a) bodyguard 1b) subjects

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מִשְׁמַעַת (H4928)

noun f · שׁמע

Control

subjects literally: the ones who listen; hence: = a group of people who have been forced into obedience by others

ISA 11:14

Soldiers

guard, bodyguard (both in the collective sense) = elite group of soldiers ► responsible for protecting high-ranking officials

1SA 22:14 · 2SA 23:23 · 1CH 11:25

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מִשְׁמַ֫עַת] n.f. obedient band, body of subjects prob. = body-guard, as esp. bound to obedience

the sons of Ammon (shall be) their subjects

base

Bible Occurrences (4)

22:14

23:23

11:25

11:14

1 Samuel 22:14

Ahimelech answered the king..., Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?

2 Samuel 23:23

He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

1 Chronicles 11:25

He was most honored among the Thirty,... but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

Isaiah 11:14

They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites... will be subject to them.