Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4941

מִשְׁפָּט

mish.pat · “justice: judgement

Used 424 times across 31 books

Definition
: 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
Where it appears
Genesis
3
Exodus
11
Leviticus
14
Numbers
19
Deuteronomy
37
Joshua
3
Judges
3
1 Samuel
7
2 Samuel
6
1 Kings
19
2 Kings
11
1 Chronicles
9
2 Chronicles
13
Ezra
2
Nehemiah
5
Job
23
Psalms
65
Proverbs
20
Ecclesiastes
6
Isaiah
42
Jeremiah
32
Lamentations
2
Ezekiel
43
Daniel
1
Hosea
6
Amos
4
Micah
5
Habakkuk
4
Zephaniah
4
Zechariah
2
Malachi
3
In the text
Genesis 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.Genesis 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?Genesis 40:13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.Exodus 15:25And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,Exodus 21:1Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.Exodus 21:9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.Exodus 21:31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.Exodus 24:3And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.Exodus 26:30And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

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