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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.

  • Proverbs 29:26
    Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:16
    And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:8
    If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:5
    Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:6
    Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
  • Ecclesiastes 11:9
    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
  • Ecclesiastes 12:14
    For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
  • Isaiah 1:17
    Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isaiah 1:21
    How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isaiah 1:27
    Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.