Custody
מִשְׁמָרStrong’s H4929mishmar (mish-mar)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishmar is the Hebrew word usually translated “guard”, “custody of” and “custody”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.”
Meaning
- Place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observancejail, prison, guard-house · guard, guard post, act of guarding · observances
How it's translated
- a guard 4
- in custody of 3
- in custody 3
- guard 3
- division 2
- custody 1
- custody your 1
- the guard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 7
- Genesis 6
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
- Genesis 40:7And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
- Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
- Genesis 42:17And he put them all together into ward three days.
- Genesis 42:19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
- Leviticus 24:12And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁמָר mishmar · custody
1) place of confinement, prison, guard, jail, guard post, watch, observance 1a) jail, prison, guard-house 1b) guard, guard post, act of guarding 1c) observances
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “custody” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUSTODY, noun
[Latin, a watchman, a keeper. See Chaste.]
- A keeping; a guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation or security.“Under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle” Numbers 3:36
- Imprisonment; confinement; restraint of liberty.
- Defense from a foe; preservation; security.
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.