# מִשְׁמֶרֶת (mishmeret)

Israeli respelling: mish-me-ret. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4931. 69 Old Testament occurrences.

watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party

King James renderings: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mishmeret-h4931

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/5) — Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- [Exodus 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/6) — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in t…
- [Exodus 16:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/23) — And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye w…
- [Exodus 16:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/32) — And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the brea…
- [Exodus 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/33) — And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generation…
- [Exodus 16:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/34) — As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- [Leviticus 8:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/8/35) — Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that…
- [Leviticus 18:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/30) — Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that y…
- [Leviticus 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/9) — They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
- [Numbers 1:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/53) — But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel…
- [Numbers 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/7) — And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of th…
- [Numbers 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/8) — And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service…
- [Numbers 3:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/25) — And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, an…
- [Numbers 3:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/28) — In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
- [Numbers 3:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/31) — And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they mini…
- [Numbers 3:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/32) — And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge o…
- [Numbers 3:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/36) — And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof…
- [Numbers 3:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/38) — But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and A…
- [Numbers 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/27) — At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their se…
- [Numbers 4:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/28) — This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand…
- [Numbers 4:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/31) — And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle,…
- [Numbers 4:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/4/32) — And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all thei…
- [Numbers 8:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/26) — But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou…
- [Numbers 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/19) — And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
- [Numbers 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/23) — At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LOR…
- [Numbers 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/17/10) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite…
- [Numbers 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/3) — And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the al…
- [Numbers 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/4) — And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a…
- [Numbers 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/5) — And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
- [Numbers 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/8) — And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children…
- [Numbers 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/9) — And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept fo…
- [Numbers 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/30) — And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks,…
- [Numbers 31:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/47) — Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kep…
- [Deuteronomy 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/1) — Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- [Joshua 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/3) — Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
- [1 Samuel 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/22/23) — Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
- [2 Samuel 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/3) — And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them…
- [1 Kings 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/3) — And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testim…
- [2 Kings 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/5) — And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers o…
- [2 Kings 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/6) — And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that…
- [2 Kings 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/7) — And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
- [1 Chronicles 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/23) — So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
- [1 Chronicles 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/27) — And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
- [1 Chronicles 12:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/29) — And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house…
- [1 Chronicles 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/32) — And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of…
- [1 Chronicles 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/25/8) — And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
- [1 Chronicles 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/26/12) — Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the…
- [2 Chronicles 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/6) — And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise t…
- [2 Chronicles 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/8/14) — And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges…
- [2 Chronicles 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/11) — And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon t…
- [2 Chronicles 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/23/6) — But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy:…
- [2 Chronicles 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/16) — Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily p…
- [2 Chronicles 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/17) — Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by t…
- [2 Chronicles 35:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/2) — And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
- [Nehemiah 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/3) — And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and…
- [Nehemiah 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/9) — Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
- [Nehemiah 12:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/45) — And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, a…
- [Nehemiah 13:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/30) — Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
- [Isaiah 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/8) — And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
- [Ezekiel 40:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/45) — And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
- [Ezekiel 40:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/40/46) — And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok…
- [Ezekiel 44:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/8) — And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
- [Ezekiel 44:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/14) — But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
- [Ezekiel 44:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/15) — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they…
- [Ezekiel 44:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/16) — They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
- [Ezekiel 48:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/11) — It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of…
- [Habakkuk 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/1) — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am re…
- [Zechariah 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/3/7) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt…
- [Malachi 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/14) — Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the…