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.
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:
- κρίμαkrima“judgment”42%
- κρίσιςkrisis“judgment”40%
- δικαίωμαdikaiōma“righteous act”11%
- δικαιοσύνηdikaiosunē“righteousness”2%
- καθήκωkathēkō“be fit”1%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
410 total
- Habakkuk 1:12לְמִשְׁפָּ֣ט · to execute judgmentAre You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
- Zephaniah 2:3מִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ · His justiceSeek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
- Zephaniah 3:5מִשְׁפָּט֨וֹ · His justiceThe LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
- Zephaniah 3:8מִשְׁפָּטִי֩ · My decisionTherefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
- Zephaniah 3:15מִשְׁפָּטַ֔יִךְ · your punishmentThe LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel’s King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.
- Zechariah 7:9מִשְׁפַּ֤ט · justice“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
- Zechariah 8:16וּמִשְׁפַּ֣ט · judgmentsThese are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
- Malachi 2:17הַמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · of justiceYou have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- Malachi 3:5לַמִּשְׁפָּט֒ · for judgment“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 4:4וּמִשְׁפָּטִֽים׃ · and ordinances“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.