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מִשְׁפָּט

mish.patH4941

justice: judgement

Used 422 times in the tagged text.

H4941G · מִשְׁפָּט · justice: judgement

What it means

  • judgment, justice, ordinance
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : 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

H4941H · מִשְׁפָּט · justice

What it means

  • judgment, justice, ordinance
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : justice/right/righteousness
  • 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

H4941I · מִשְׁפָּט · justice: rule

What it means

  • judgment, justice, ordinance
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : rule/prescription
  • 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

H4941J · מִשְׁפָּט · justice: custom

What it means

  • judgment, justice, ordinance
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : custom/manner
  • 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

H4941K · מִשְׁפָּט · (Hall of) Judgment

Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • Combined with u.lam (אוּלָם "Hall" H0197H)
  • This name means judgment, sentence

Same idea, other words · Righteousness and justice

The same word family carries both 'righteous' and 'just'. English splits them; the Bible often does not.

Where it appears

  • Genesis3
  • Exodus11
  • Leviticus14
  • Numbers19
  • Deuteronomy37
  • Joshua3
  • Judges3
  • 1 Samuel7
  • 2 Samuel5
  • 1 Kings18
  • 2 Kings11
  • 1 Chronicles9
  • 2 Chronicles13
  • Ezra2
  • Nehemiah5
  • Job23
  • Psalms65
  • Proverbs20
  • Ecclesiastes6
  • Isaiah42
  • Jeremiah32
  • Lamentations2
  • Ezekiel43
  • Daniel1
  • Hosea6
  • Amos4
  • Micah5
  • Habakkuk4
  • Zephaniah4
  • Zechariah2
  • Malachi3

Every use · 101–150 of 422 · BSB

  1. 2 Samuel 15:6לַמִּשְׁפָּ֖טfor <the> judgment

    Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

  2. 2 Samuel 22:23מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יוjudgments his

    For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

  3. 1 Kings 2:3וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֣יוand judgments his

    And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,

  4. 1 Kings 3:11מִשְׁפָּֽטjudgment

    So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—

  5. 1 Kings 3:28הַמִּשְׁפָּט֙the judgment

    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

  6. 1 Kings 3:28מִשְׁפָּֽט סjustice

    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

  7. 1 Kings 4:28כְּמִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ סaccording to measure his

    Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

  8. 1 Kings 6:12מִשְׁפָּטַ֣יjudgments my

    “As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

  9. 1 Kings 6:38מִשְׁפָּטָ֑יוplans its

    In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

  10. 1 Kings 7:7הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט<the> judgment

    In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

  11. 1 Kings 8:45מִשְׁפָּטָֽםjustice their

    then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

  12. 1 Kings 8:49מִשְׁפָּטָֽםjustice their

    then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

  13. 1 Kings 8:58וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔יוand judgments his

    May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

  14. 1 Kings 8:59מִשְׁפַּ֣ט[the] justice of

    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

  15. 1 Kings 8:59וּמִשְׁפַּ֛טand [the] justice of

    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

  16. 1 Kings 9:4וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יand judgments my

    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

  17. 1 Kings 10:9מִשְׁפָּ֖טjustice

    Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

  18. 1 Kings 11:33וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יand judgments my

    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

  19. 1 Kings 18:28כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔םaccording to custom their

    So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

  20. 1 Kings 20:40מִשְׁפָּטֶ֖ךָsentence your

    But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

  21. 2 Kings 1:7מִשְׁפַּ֣ט[was] [the] appearance of

    The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”

  22. 2 Kings 11:14כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֗טaccording to the custom

    And she looked out and saw the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason! Treason!”

  23. 2 Kings 17:26מִשְׁפַּ֖ט[the] custom of

    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”

  24. 2 Kings 17:26מִשְׁפַּ֖ט[the] custom of

    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”

  25. 2 Kings 17:27מִשְׁפַּ֖ט[the] custom of

    Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”

  26. 2 Kings 17:33כְּמִשְׁפַּט֙according to [the] custom of

    They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

  27. 2 Kings 17:34כַּמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖יםaccording to the customs

    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

  28. 2 Kings 17:34וּכְמִשְׁפָּטָ֔םand according to judgment their

    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

  29. 2 Kings 17:37הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֜יםthe judgments

    And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.

  30. 2 Kings 17:40כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֥םaccording to custom their

    But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.

  31. 2 Kings 25:6מִשְׁפָּֽטjudgment

    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.

  32. 1 Chronicles 6:32כְמִשְׁפָּטָ֖םaccording to custom their

    They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.

  33. 1 Chronicles 15:13כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽטaccording to the ordinance

    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.”

  34. 1 Chronicles 16:12וּמִשְׁפְּטֵי־and [the] judgments of

    Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

  35. 1 Chronicles 16:14מִשְׁפָּטָֽיוjudgments his

    He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.

  36. 1 Chronicles 18:14מִשְׁפָּ֥טjustice

    Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:

  37. 1 Chronicles 22:13הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔יםthe judgments

    Then you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

  38. 1 Chronicles 23:31כְּמִשְׁפָּ֧טaccording to [the] ordinance

    Whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, they were to serve regularly before the LORD in the numbers prescribed for them.

  39. 1 Chronicles 24:19כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔םaccording to ordinance their

    This was their appointed order for service when they entered the house of the LORD, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

  40. 1 Chronicles 28:7וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יand judgments my

    I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.’

  41. 2 Chronicles 4:7כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑םaccording to ordinance their

    He made ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

  42. 2 Chronicles 4:20כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֛טaccording to the ordinance

    the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

  43. 2 Chronicles 6:35מִשְׁפָּטָֽםjustice their

    then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

  44. 2 Chronicles 6:39מִשְׁפָּטָ֑םjustice their

    then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

  45. 2 Chronicles 7:17וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יand judgments my

    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

  46. 2 Chronicles 8:14כְּמִשְׁפַּ֣טaccording to [the] ordinance of

    In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

  47. 2 Chronicles 9:8מִשְׁפָּ֥טjustice

    Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”

  48. 2 Chronicles 19:6מִשְׁפָּֽטjudgment

    Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment.

  49. 2 Chronicles 19:8לְמִשְׁפַּ֥טfor [the] judgment of

    Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

  50. 2 Chronicles 19:10וּלְמִשְׁפָּטִים֒and <to> judgments

    For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

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