משפחה

See also: משפּחה

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
שׁ־פ־ח (sh-p-kh)
2 terms

Perhaps related to שִׁפְחָה (shifkhá, “female slave”).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /miʃpaˈχa/

• Audio:

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Noun

מִשְׁפָּחָה • (mishpakhá) f (plural indefinite מִשְׁפָּחוֹת, singular construct מִשְׁפַּחַת־) [pattern: מִקְטָלָה]

1. (countable) family (a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family)
2. (countable, biology, taxonomy) family (a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank)

Declension

Declension of מִשְׁפָּחָה

Number	Isolated forms		With possessive pronouns
	State	Form	Person	singular		plural
				m.	f.	m.	f.
singular	indefinite	מִשְׁפָּחָה	first	מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי		מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּנוּ
	definite	הַמִּשְׁפָּחָה	second	מִשְׁפַּחְתְּךָ	מִשְׁפַּחְתֵּךְ	מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶם	מִשְׁפַּחְתְּכֶן
	construct	מִשְׁפַּחַת־	third	מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ	מִשְׁפַּחְתָּהּ	מִשְׁפַּחְתָּם	מִשְׁפַּחְתָּן
plural	indefinite	מִשְׁפָּחוֹת	first	משפחותיי / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַי		מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵינוּ
	definite	הַמִּשְׁפָּחוֹת	second	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיךָ	משפחותייך / מִשְׁפְּחוֹתַיִךְ	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶם	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֵיכֶן
	construct	מִשְׁפְּחוֹת־	third	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָיו	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתֶיהָ	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָם	מִשְׁפְּחוֹתָן

Derived terms

• בֶּן מִשְׁפָּחָה (ben mishpakhá)
• מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי (mishpakhtí)
• שֵׁם מִשְׁפָּחָה (shém mishpakhá)

Descendants

• → Yiddish: משפּחה (mishpokhe), מישפּאָכע (mishpokhe) — Soviet phonetic spelling
  • → Dutch: misjpooche
  • → German: Mischpoche, Mischpoke
  • → Hungarian: mispóche

References

• H4940 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• משפחה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Yiddish

Noun

משפחה • (mishpokhe) f

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of משפּחה (mishpokhe).