מִשְׁמָר
KJV Translations of H4929
diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Word Origin & Derivation
from H8104 (שָׁמַר);
H4929 in the King James Bible
20 versesBe thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
And 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?
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
And he put them all together into ward three days.
If 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:
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?