מִשְׁמַעַת

mish.ma.at

guard

Strong’s H4928Noun, feminine4 times in the Hebrew Bible

bodyguard3

will be subjects1

In the text

1 Samuel 22:14מִשְׁמַעְתֶּךָ
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?
2 Samuel 23:23מִשְׁמַעְתּוֹ ס
He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
1 Chronicles 11:25מִשְׁמַעְתּוֹ ס
He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.
Isaiah 11:14מִשְׁמַעְתָּם
They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

[מִשְׁמַ֫עַת] n.f. obedient band, body of subjects

1. prob. = body-guard, as esp. bound to obedience

2. the sons of Ammon (shall be) their subjects

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.