Guard
מִשְׁמַ֫עַתStrong’s H4928mishmaat (mish-ma-at)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishmaat is the Hebrew word usually translated “bodyguard his”, “bodyguard your” and “subjects their”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
- Subjects, body of subjects, bodyguard, listeners, obedient onesbodyguard · subjects
How it's translated
- bodyguard his 2
- bodyguard your 1
- subjects their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 23:23He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
- 1 Chronicles 11:25Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
- Isaiah 11:14But 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.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁמַ֫עַת mishmaat · guard
1) subjects, body of subjects, bodyguard, listeners, obedient ones 1a) bodyguard 1b) subjects
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “guard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GUARD, verb transitive
gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]
- To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.
- To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
- To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
- To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
All definitions and other forms of “guard”
- To gird; to fasten by binding.
GUARD, verb intransitive
To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.
GUARD, noun
[Eng. ward.]
- Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
- That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends.
- A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.
- A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.
- That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
- Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
- In fencing, a posture of defense.
- An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.
GUARD'-BOAT, noun
A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.
GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun
A guard-room.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.