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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. Isaiah 58:2מִשְׁפְּטֵי־ · judgments
    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.”
  2. Isaiah 59:8מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · 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.
  3. Isaiah 59:9מִשְׁפָּט֙ · justice
    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.
  4. Isaiah 59:11לַמִּשְׁפָּט֙ · for 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.
  5. Isaiah 59:14מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · So justice
    So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.
  6. Isaiah 59:15מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · justice
    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
  7. Isaiah 61:8מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · 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.
  8. Jeremiah 1:16מִשְׁפָּטַי֙ · My judgments
    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  9. Jeremiah 4:2בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט · in 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.”
  10. Jeremiah 4:12מִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים · judgments
    …a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
  11. Jeremiah 5:1מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · justly
    “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.
  12. Jeremiah 5:4מִשְׁפַּ֖ט · the justice
    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.
  13. Jeremiah 5:5מִשְׁפַּ֖ט · the justice
    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.
  14. Jeremiah 5:28וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט · the rights
    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.
  15. Jeremiah 7:5מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · justly
    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
  16. Jeremiah 8:7מִשְׁפַּ֥ט · the requirements
    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.
  17. Jeremiah 9:24מִשְׁפָּ֥ט · justice
    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.
  18. Jeremiah 10:24בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט · with justice —
    Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
  19. Jeremiah 17:11בְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט · unjustly
    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.”
  20. Jeremiah 21:12מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · justice every morning
    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.
  21. Jeremiah 22:3מִשְׁפָּט֙ · justice
    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.
  22. Jeremiah 22:15מִשְׁפָּט֙ · justice
    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.
  23. Jeremiah 23:5מִשְׁפָּ֥ט · justice
    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.
  24. Jeremiah 26:11מִשְׁפַּט־ · [is] worthy
    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!”
  25. Jeremiah 26:16מִשְׁפַּט־ · worthy
    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!”
  26. Jeremiah 30:11לַמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט · justly
    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.”
  27. Jeremiah 30:18מִשְׁפָּט֥וֹ · its rightful place
    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.
  28. Jeremiah 32:7מִשְׁפַּ֥ט · the right
    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.’
  29. Jeremiah 32:8מִשְׁפַּ֧ט · the right
    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.
  30. Jeremiah 33:15מִשְׁפָּ֥ט · justice
    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.
  31. Jeremiah 39:5מִשְׁפָּטִֽים׃ · judgment
    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.
  32. Jeremiah 46:28לַמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט · justly
    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.”
  33. Jeremiah 48:21וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט · Judgment
    Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
  34. Jeremiah 48:47מִשְׁפַּ֥ט · the judgment
    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
  35. Jeremiah 49:12מִשְׁפָּטָ֜ם · deserve
    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.
  36. Jeremiah 51:9מִשְׁפָּטָ֔הּ · her judgment
    “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.”
  37. Jeremiah 52:9מִשְׁפָּטִֽים׃ · judgment
    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.
  38. Lamentations 3:35מִשְׁפַּט־ · justice
    …to deny a man justice before the Most High,
  39. Lamentations 3:59מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃ · my cause
    You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
  40. Ezekiel 5:6מִשְׁפָּטַ֤י · against My ordinances; בְמִשְׁפָּטַי֙ · My ordinances
    But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
  41. Ezekiel 5:7מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · My ordinances; וּֽכְמִשְׁפְּטֵ֧י · to the ordinances
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
  42. Ezekiel 5:8מִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים · judgments
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
  43. Ezekiel 7:23מִשְׁפַּ֣ט · of crimes
    Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
  44. Ezekiel 7:27וּבְמִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶ֣ם · by their own standards
    The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  45. Ezekiel 11:12וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · My ordinances; וּֽכְמִשְׁפְּטֵ֧י · to the ordinances
    Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
  46. Ezekiel 11:20מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י · My ordinances
    …so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  47. Ezekiel 16:38מִשְׁפְּטֵ֣י · to the punishment
    And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.