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HebrewH4941Noun (Masculine)

מִשְׁפָּט

mish.pat

383Occurrences
H4941Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

from H8199 (שָׁפַט);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
judgement/punishment 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מִשְׁפָּט appears 383 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Psalms
51
Isaiah
39
Deuteronomy
36
Ezk
36
Jeremiah
31
Job
23
Proverbs
20
Numbers
19

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 15:13BSB

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

Deuteronomy 24:17BSB

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

Genesis 18:25BSB

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Jeremiah 5:5BSB

I will go to the powerfuland speak to them.Surely they know the way of the LORD,the justice of their God.”But they too, with one accord, had broken the yokeand torn off the chains.

Numbers 9:3BSB

You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.