Word study · Hebrew
מִשְׁפָּט
mish.patH4941justice: 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.
- צֶ֫דֶקtsedeq righteousnessrighteousness, what is rightH6664
- צְדָקָהtsedaqah righteousnessrighteousness as a lived quality or a giftH6666
- מִשְׁפָּטmishpat justice: judgementjustice, judgment, the right orderH4941
- δικαιοσύνηdikaiosunē righteousnessrighteousness, the standing and the conductG1343
- δίκαιοςdikaios justrighteous, justG1342
- δικαιόωdikaioō to justifyto declare righteous, to justifyG1344
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
A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
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.”
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
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.
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.
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.”
a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
“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.
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.
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.
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.
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
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.
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.
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
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?
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.”
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.
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.
“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,
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.
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.
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!”
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!”
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.”
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
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.
“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.”
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.
to deny a man justice before the Most High,
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
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