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מִשְׁפְּתַיִם

mish.pat

sheepfold

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Strong’s H4942Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

two campfires1

fire-places1

In the text

Genesis 49:14הַמִּשְׁפְּתָיִם
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
Judges 5:16הַמִּשְׁפְּתַיִם
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מִשְׁפְּתַ֫יִם n.[m.]du. prob. fire-places or ash-heaps

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.