Hebrew word · H4936

מִשְׁעָם

umish'am

Misham

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.12;

son of: Elpaal (H0508);

brother of: Eber (H5677I), Shemed (H8106B), Beriah (H1283I), Shema (H8087I), Zebadiah (H2069H), Meshullam (H4918J), Hizki (H2395), Heber (H2268J), Ishmerai (H3461), Izliah (H3152) and Jobab (H3103K)

§ Misham = "purification"

a Benjamite, son of Elpaal and descendant of Shaharaim

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1
  1. 1 Chronicles 8:12 וּמִשְׁעָ֖ם and Misham

    The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its villages),

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