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מִשְׁפָּט (H4941)

mishpâṭ

mish-pawt'

from שָׁפַט; properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style; [phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, [idiom] worthy, [phrase] wrong.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

מִשְׁפָּט 422 n.m. judgment
1 judgment
2 justice, right, rectitude
3 ordinance
4 decision
5 one's (legal) right, privilege, due
6
a proper, fitting, measure
b custom, manner
c what manner of
d plan

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


406 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Job 34:17
    Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
  • Job 34:23
    For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
  • Job 35:2
    Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
  • Job 36:6
    He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
  • Job 36:17
    But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
  • Job 37:23
    Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
  • Job 40:8
    Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
  • Psalms 1:5
    Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
  • Psalms 7:6
    Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
  • Psalms 9:4
    For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.