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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 · 301–350 of 422 · BSB

  1. Isaiah 42:3מִשְׁפָּֽטjustice

    A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

  2. Isaiah 42:4מִשְׁפָּ֑טjustice

    He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

  3. Isaiah 49:4מִשְׁפָּטִ֣יjustice my

    But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

  4. Isaiah 50:8מִשְׁפָּטִ֖יcase my

    The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

  5. Isaiah 51:4וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֔יand justice my

    Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

  6. Isaiah 53:8וּמִמִּשְׁפָּט֙and from judgment

    By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

  7. Isaiah 54:17לַמִּשְׁפָּ֖טto <the> judgment

    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

  8. Isaiah 56:1מִשְׁפָּ֖טjustice

    This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.

  9. Isaiah 58:2וּמִשְׁפַּ֤טand [the] judgment of

    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

  10. Isaiah 58:2מִשְׁפְּטֵי־judgments of

    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

  11. Isaiah 59:8מִשְׁפָּ֖ט[is] justice

    The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

  12. Isaiah 59:9מִשְׁפָּט֙justice

    Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

  13. Isaiah 59:11לַמִּשְׁפָּט֙for <the> justice

    We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

  14. Isaiah 59:14מִשְׁפָּ֔טjustice

    So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

  15. Isaiah 59:15מִשְׁפָּֽט[was] justice

    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

  16. Isaiah 61:8מִשְׁפָּ֔טjustice

    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

  17. Jeremiah 1:16מִשְׁפָּטַי֙judgments my

    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.

  18. Jeremiah 4:2בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣טin justice

    and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

  19. Jeremiah 4:12מִשְׁפָּטִ֖יםjudgments

    a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

  20. Jeremiah 5:1מִשְׁפָּ֖טjustice

    “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

  21. Jeremiah 5:4מִשְׁפַּ֖ט[the] ordinance of

    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

  22. Jeremiah 5:5מִשְׁפַּ֖ט[the] ordinance of

    I will go to the powerful and 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 yoke and torn off the chains.

  23. Jeremiah 5:28וּמִשְׁפַּ֥טand [the] justice of

    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

  24. Jeremiah 7:5מִשְׁפָּ֔טjustice

    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

  25. Jeremiah 8:7מִשְׁפַּ֥ט[the] ordinance of

    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

  26. Jeremiah 9:24מִשְׁפָּ֥טjustice

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

  27. Jeremiah 10:24בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑טin justice

    Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

  28. Jeremiah 12:1מִשְׁפָּטִים֙judgments

    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

  29. Jeremiah 17:11בְמִשְׁפָּ֑טwith justice

    Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

  30. Jeremiah 21:12מִשְׁפָּ֔טjustice

    O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

  31. Jeremiah 22:3מִשְׁפָּט֙justice

    This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

  32. Jeremiah 22:13מִשְׁפָּ֑טjustice

    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

  33. Jeremiah 22:15מִשְׁפָּט֙justice

    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

  34. Jeremiah 23:5מִשְׁפָּ֥טjustice

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

  35. Jeremiah 26:11מִשְׁפַּט־a sentence of

    Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”

  36. Jeremiah 26:16מִשְׁפַּט־a sentence of

    Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

  37. Jeremiah 30:11לַמִּשְׁפָּ֔טto <the> justice

    For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

  38. Jeremiah 30:18מִשְׁפָּט֥וֹproper place its

    This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

  39. Jeremiah 32:7מִשְׁפַּ֥ט[the] right of

    Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

  40. Jeremiah 32:8מִשְׁפַּ֧ט[the] right of

    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

  41. Jeremiah 33:15מִשְׁפָּ֥טjustice

    In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

  42. Jeremiah 39:5מִשְׁפָּטִֽיםjudgments

    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

  43. Jeremiah 46:28לַמִּשְׁפָּ֔טto <the> justice

    And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

  44. Jeremiah 48:21וּמִשְׁפָּ֥טand judgment

    Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

  45. Jeremiah 48:47מִשְׁפַּ֥ט[the] judgment of

    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

  46. Jeremiah 49:12מִשְׁפָּטָ֜םsentence their

    For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

  47. Jeremiah 51:9מִשְׁפָּטָ֔הּjudgment its

    “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

  48. Jeremiah 52:9מִשְׁפָּטִֽיםjudgments

    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.

  49. Lamentations 3:35מִשְׁפַּט־[the] justice of

    to deny a man justice before the Most High,

  50. Lamentations 3:59מִשְׁפָּטִֽיjudgment my

    You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

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