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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. Ezekiel 18:5מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · what is just
    Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
  2. Ezekiel 18:8מִשְׁפַּ֤ט · justice
    He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
  3. Ezekiel 18:9וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י · My ordinances
    He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
  4. Ezekiel 18:17מִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
  5. Ezekiel 18:19מִשְׁפָּ֧ט · what is just
    Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
  6. Ezekiel 18:21מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · what is just
    But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
  7. Ezekiel 18:27מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · what is just
    But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
  8. Ezekiel 20:11מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · My ordinances
    And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
  9. Ezekiel 20:13מִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
  10. Ezekiel 20:16בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    …because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
  11. Ezekiel 20:18מִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶ֖ם · their ordinances
    In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
  12. Ezekiel 20:19מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י · My ordinances
    I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
  13. Ezekiel 20:21מִשְׁפָּטַ֨י · My ordinances
    But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
  14. Ezekiel 20:24מִשְׁפָּטַ֤י · My ordinances
    For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
  15. Ezekiel 20:25וּמִ֨שְׁפָּטִ֔ים · and ordinances
    I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
  16. Ezekiel 21:27הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט · the right of judgment
    A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’
  17. Ezekiel 22:29מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · justice
    The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
  18. Ezekiel 23:24מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · judgment; בְּמִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶֽם׃ · according to their own standards
    They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.
  19. Ezekiel 23:45מִשְׁפַּט֙; וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט · to the punishment of
    But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
  20. Ezekiel 33:14מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · what is just
    But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
  21. Ezekiel 33:16מִשְׁפָּ֧ט · what is just
    None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
  22. Ezekiel 33:19מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · what is just
    But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
  23. Ezekiel 34:16בְמִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · with justice
    I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
  24. Ezekiel 36:27וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י · My ordinances
    And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
  25. Ezekiel 37:24וּבְמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
  26. Ezekiel 39:21מִשְׁפָּטִי֙ · the judgment
    I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
  27. Ezekiel 42:11וּכְמִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶ֖ן · and [dimensions]
    …with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.
  28. Ezekiel 44:24בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · according to My ordinances
    In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.
  29. Ezekiel 45:9וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט · what is just
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
  30. Daniel 9:5וּמִמִּשְׁפָּטֶֽיךָ׃ · and ordinances
    …we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
  31. Hosea 2:19וּבְמִשְׁפָּ֔ט · and justice
    So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
  32. Hosea 5:1הַמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט · this judgment
    “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
  33. Hosea 5:11מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · in judgment
    Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
  34. Hosea 6:5וּמִשְׁפָּטֶ֖יךָ · and My judgments
    Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
  35. Hosea 10:4מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · So judgment
    They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
  36. Hosea 12:6וּמִשְׁפָּט֙ · and justice
    But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.
  37. Amos 5:7מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · justice
    There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
  38. Amos 5:15מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · justice
    Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  39. Amos 5:24מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · But let justice
    But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
  40. Amos 6:12מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · justice
    “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
  41. Micah 3:1הַמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · justice
    Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
  42. Micah 3:8וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט · with justice
    As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
  43. Micah 3:9מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · justice
    Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
  44. Micah 6:8מִשְׁפָּט֙ · justly
    He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  45. Micah 7:9מִשְׁפָּטִ֔י · justice for me
    Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
  46. Habakkuk 1:4מִשְׁפָּ֑ט · and justice; מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · justice
    Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
  47. Habakkuk 1:7מִשְׁפָּט֥וֹ · justice
    They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.