מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם
ash
‘ash’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Every verse where H4942 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, משפת (mishpâth) means “ash.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (50% of all occurrences). First canonically at Genesis 49:14, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4942 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Between two burdens 1×, Sheepfolds 1×
- American Standard Version: Between the sheepfolds 1×, Sheepfolds 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sheepfolds 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sheepfolds 1×, Two saddlebags 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4942 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fire-places, ash-heaps
- (CLBL) sheepfolds, saddlebags
Word origin
Derived from שפה (shâphâh) (H8192) — to sweep.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁפַת
- (b. h.) to place, pile, esp. to place the cooking vessel over or by the fire. Y. Sabb. I, end, 4ᵇ השׁוֹפֵת את הקדירה וכ׳ if one sets a pot over coals (on the Sabbath), we must warn him &c. Bets. IV, 5 לִשְׁפּוֹת וכ׳ to place a pot on them, v. נָקַף I. Ḥull. 84ᵃ מאה מנה יִשְׁפְּתוּ וכ׳ if one possesses one hundred Maneh, he may have a pot put on the stove every day. Sot. 11ᵇ שׁוֹפְתוֹת שתי וכ׳ they put on two pots, one for hot water, and one with fish; Ex. R. s. 1. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXII, 16 הייתי דומה … שׁוֹפְתִין עליה (not שופכין) I was like a stove situate between two roads, on which the travellers do their cooking; ed. Bub. ש׳ קרירותיהן עליה; Yalk. ib. 687; a. fr.—[Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. III, 1 שפת הימנה, v. שָׁפָה I.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H4942 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽ/מִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Judges 5:16 | 1 |
| הַֽ/מִּשְׁפְּתָֽיִם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Dual, Absolute | Genesis 49:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4942, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
