Mishmaʻath — H4928

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. subjects, body of subjects, bodyguard, listeners, obedient ones
1. bodyguard
2. subjects

Usually translated as

guard, bidding, obey

Origin

feminine of H4926

• Mishmâʻ (H4926)

Occurrences

Mishmaʻath occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1)

• 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 (מִשְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ךָ), 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 (מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ).
• 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 (מִשְׁמַעְתּֽוֹ).
• 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 (מִשְׁמַעְתָּֽם) them.