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מִשְׁפָּט

mish.patjustice: judgementHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine410 occurrences31 books395 verses
This word comes from the name of Hall of Judgment.

Definition

from H8199; 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
Traditional renderings: adversary, ceremony, charge, × 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, × worthy, wrong.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מִשְׁפָּט:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

410 total
  1. 1 Kings 2:3וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו · ordinances
    And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
  2. 1 Kings 3:11מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · justice
    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—
  3. 1 Kings 3:28הַמִּשְׁפָּט֙ · of the judgment; מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ס · justice
    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.
  4. 1 Kings 4:28כְּמִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ׃ס · their quotas
    Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.
  5. 1 Kings 6:12מִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    “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.
  6. 1 Kings 6:38מִשְׁפָּטוֹ · specification
    In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
  7. 1 Kings 7:7הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט · of Justice
    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.
  8. 1 Kings 8:45מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ · their cause
    …then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
  9. 1 Kings 8:49מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ · their cause
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.
  10. 1 Kings 8:58וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔יו · and ordinances
    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.
  11. 1 Kings 8:59מִשְׁפַּ֣ט · the cause; וּמִשְׁפַּ֛ט · [and]
    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,
  12. 1 Kings 9:4וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · and ordinances
    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,
  13. 1 Kings 10:9מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · justice
    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.”
  14. 1 Kings 11:33וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · and judgments
    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.
  15. 1 Kings 18:28כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔ם · as [was] their custom
    So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
  16. 1 Kings 20:40מִשְׁפָּטֶ֖ךָ · [shall] your judgment [be]
    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.”
  17. 2 Kings 1:7מִשְׁפַּ֣ט · sort
    The king asked them, “What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke these words to you?”
  18. 2 Kings 11:14כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט · according 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!”
  19. 2 Kings 17:26מִשְׁפַּ֖ט · the requirements; מִשְׁפַּ֖ט
    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.”
  20. 2 Kings 17:27מִשְׁפַּ֖ט · the requirements
    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.”
  21. 2 Kings 17:33כְּמִשְׁפַּט֙ · according to the customs
    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.
  22. 2 Kings 17:34כַּמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים · customs; וּכְמִשְׁפָּטָ֔ם · ordinances
    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.
  23. 2 Kings 17:37הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֜ים · ordinances
    And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
  24. 2 Kings 17:40כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֥ם · customs
    But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
  25. 2 Kings 25:6מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · judgment
    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
  26. 1 Chronicles 6:32כְמִשְׁפָּטָ֖ם · according to the regulations given them
    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.
  27. 1 Chronicles 15:13כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · about the proper order
    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.”
  28. 1 Chronicles 16:12וּמִשְׁפְּטֵי־ · and the judgments
    Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
  29. 1 Chronicles 16:14מִשְׁפָּטָֽיו׃ · His judgments [carry]
    He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
  30. 1 Chronicles 18:14מִשְׁפָּ֥ט · justice
    Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
  31. 1 Chronicles 22:13הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים · and ordinances
    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.
  32. 1 Chronicles 23:31כְּמִשְׁפָּ֧ט · prescribed
    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.
  33. 1 Chronicles 24:19כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔ם · according to the regulations
    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.
  34. 1 Chronicles 28:7וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · and ordinances
    I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.’
  35. 2 Chronicles 4:7כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם · according to their specifications
    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.
  36. 2 Chronicles 4:20כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֛ט · as prescribed
    …the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
  37. 2 Chronicles 6:35מִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ · their cause
    …then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
  38. 2 Chronicles 6:39מִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם · their cause
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
  39. 2 Chronicles 7:17וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · and ordinances
    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,
  40. 2 Chronicles 8:14כְּמִשְׁפַּ֣ט · In keeping with the ordinances
    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.
  41. 2 Chronicles 9:8מִשְׁפָּ֥ט · justice
    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.”
  42. 2 Chronicles 19:6מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · when you render judgment
    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.
  43. 2 Chronicles 19:8לְמִשְׁפַּ֥ט · to judge
    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.
  44. 2 Chronicles 19:10וּלְמִשְׁפָּטִים֒ · or ordinances
    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.
  45. 2 Chronicles 30:16כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֔ם · their prescribed
    They stood at their prescribed posts, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests splattered the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.
  46. 2 Chronicles 33:8וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים · and judgments
    I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”