Strong's numbers
מָשָׁל H4912
mâshâl
maw-shawl'
apparently from מָשַׁל in some original sense of superiority in mental action; properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse); byword, like, parable, proverb.
Brown–Driver–Briggs
מָשָׁל n.m. proverb, parable (of sentences constructed in parallelism, usu. of Hebrew Wisdom, but occas. of other types)
From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.
39 occurrences
Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.
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1 Kings 4:32
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
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1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
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2 Chronicles 7:20
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
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Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Job 29:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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Psalms 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
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Psalms 69:11
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: