H4941: מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ · pronounced mish-pawt' · “justice: judgement”
Definition
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
KJV translates it as: [phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] 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, [idiom] worthy, [phrase] wrong.
Word origin: from H8199 (שָׁפַט);
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4941 is translated
- justice ×109
- judgment ×59
- my ×47
- judgments ×34
- your ×28
- their ×19
- his ×17
- ordinance ×13
- the justice of ×10
- the judgments of ×10
- its ×8
- the custom of ×7
Bible verses with H4941 (mishpâṭ)
Mishpâṭ appears in 406 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 18:19
For 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 18:25
That 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 40:13
Yet 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 15:25
And 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 21:1
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
- Exodus 21:9
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
- Exodus 21:31
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
- Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
- Exodus 24:3
And 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 26:30
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
- Exodus 28:15
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
- Exodus 28:29
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.
- Exodus 28:30
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the Lord: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually.
- Leviticus 5:10
And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 9:16
And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
- Leviticus 18:4
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
- Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
- Leviticus 19:35
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Leviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
- Leviticus 24:22
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 25:18
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
- Leviticus 26:15
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
All 406 references (first 400)
- Leviticus 26:43
- Leviticus 26:46
- Numbers 9:3
- Numbers 9:14
- Numbers 15:16
- Numbers 15:24
- Numbers 27:5
- Numbers 27:11
- Numbers 27:21
- Numbers 29:6
- Numbers 29:18
- Numbers 29:21
- Numbers 29:24
- Numbers 29:27
- Numbers 29:30
- Numbers 29:33
- Numbers 29:37
- Numbers 35:12
- Numbers 35:24
- Numbers 35:29
- Numbers 36:13
- Deuteronomy 1:17
- Deuteronomy 4:1
- Deuteronomy 4:5
- Deuteronomy 4:8
- Deuteronomy 4:14
- Deuteronomy 4:45
- Deuteronomy 5:1
- Deuteronomy 5:31
- Deuteronomy 6:1
- Deuteronomy 6:20
- Deuteronomy 7:11
- Deuteronomy 7:12
- Deuteronomy 8:11
- Deuteronomy 10:18
- Deuteronomy 11:1
- Deuteronomy 11:32
- Deuteronomy 12:1
- Deuteronomy 16:18
- Deuteronomy 16:19
- Deuteronomy 17:8
- Deuteronomy 17:9
- Deuteronomy 17:11
- Deuteronomy 18:3
- Deuteronomy 19:6
- Deuteronomy 21:17
- Deuteronomy 21:22
- Deuteronomy 24:17
- Deuteronomy 25:1
- Deuteronomy 26:16
- Deuteronomy 26:17
- Deuteronomy 27:19
- Deuteronomy 30:16
- Deuteronomy 32:4
- Deuteronomy 32:41
- Deuteronomy 33:10
- Deuteronomy 33:21
- Joshua 6:15
- Joshua 20:6
- Joshua 24:25
- Judges 4:5
- Judges 13:12
- Judges 18:7
- 1 Samuel 2:13
- 1 Samuel 8:3
- 1 Samuel 8:9
- 1 Samuel 8:11
- 1 Samuel 10:25
- 1 Samuel 27:11
- 1 Samuel 30:25
- 2 Samuel 8:15
- 2 Samuel 15:2
- 2 Samuel 15:4
- 2 Samuel 15:6
- 2 Samuel 22:23
- 1 Kings 2:3
- 1 Kings 3:11
- 1 Kings 3:28
- 1 Kings 4:28
- 1 Kings 6:12
- 1 Kings 6:38
- 1 Kings 7:7
- 1 Kings 8:45
- 1 Kings 8:49
- 1 Kings 8:58
- 1 Kings 8:59
- 1 Kings 9:4
- 1 Kings 10:9
- 1 Kings 11:33
- 1 Kings 18:28
- 1 Kings 20:40
- 2 Kings 1:7
- 2 Kings 11:14
- 2 Kings 17:26
- 2 Kings 17:27
- 2 Kings 17:33
- 2 Kings 17:34
- 2 Kings 17:37
- 2 Kings 17:40
- 2 Kings 25:6
- 1 Chronicles 6:32
- 1 Chronicles 15:13
- 1 Chronicles 16:12
- 1 Chronicles 16:14
- 1 Chronicles 18:14
- 1 Chronicles 22:13
- 1 Chronicles 23:31
- 1 Chronicles 24:19
- 1 Chronicles 28:7
- 2 Chronicles 4:7
- 2 Chronicles 4:20
- 2 Chronicles 6:35
- 2 Chronicles 6:39
- 2 Chronicles 7:17
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
- 2 Chronicles 9:8
- 2 Chronicles 19:6
- 2 Chronicles 19:8
- 2 Chronicles 19:10
- 2 Chronicles 30:16
- 2 Chronicles 33:8
- 2 Chronicles 35:13
- Ezra 3:4
- Ezra 7:10
- Nehemiah 1:7
- Nehemiah 8:18
- Nehemiah 9:13
- Nehemiah 9:29
- Nehemiah 10:29
- Job 8:3
- Job 9:19
- Job 9:32
- Job 13:18
- Job 14:3
- Job 19:7
- Job 22:4
- Job 23:4
- Job 27:2
- Job 29:14
- Job 31:13
- Job 32:9
- Job 34:4
- Job 34:5
- Job 34:6
- Job 34:12
- Job 34:17
- Job 34:23
- Job 35:2
- Job 36:6
- Job 36:17
- Job 37:23
- Job 40:8
- Psalms 1:5
- Psalms 7:6
- Psalms 9:4
- Psalms 9:7
- Psalms 9:16
- Psalms 10:5
- Psalms 17:2
- Psalms 18:22
- Psalms 19:9
- Psalms 25:9
- Psalms 33:5
- Psalms 35:23
- Psalms 36:6
- Psalms 37:6
- Psalms 37:28
- Psalms 37:30
- Psalms 48:11
- Psalms 72:1
- Psalms 72:2
- Psalms 76:9
- Psalms 81:4
- Psalms 89:14
- Psalms 89:30
- Psalms 94:15
- Psalms 97:2
- Psalms 97:8
- Psalms 99:4
- Psalms 101:1
- Psalms 103:6
- Psalms 105:5
- Psalms 105:7
- Psalms 106:3
- Psalms 111:7
- Psalms 112:5
- Psalms 119:7
- Psalms 119:13
- Psalms 119:20
- Psalms 119:30
- Psalms 119:39
- Psalms 119:43
- Psalms 119:52
- Psalms 119:62
- Psalms 119:75
- Psalms 119:84
- Psalms 119:91
- Psalms 119:102
- Psalms 119:106
- Psalms 119:108
- Psalms 119:120
- Psalms 119:121
- Psalms 119:132
- Psalms 119:137
- Psalms 119:149
- Psalms 119:156
- Psalms 119:160
- Psalms 119:164
- Psalms 119:175
- Psalms 122:5
- Psalms 140:12
- Psalms 143:2
- Psalms 146:7
- Psalms 147:19
- Psalms 147:20
- Psalms 149:9
- Proverbs 1:3
- Proverbs 2:8
- Proverbs 2:9
- Proverbs 8:20
- Proverbs 12:5
- Proverbs 13:23
- Proverbs 16:8
- Proverbs 16:10
- Proverbs 16:11
- Proverbs 16:33
- Proverbs 17:23
- Proverbs 18:5
- Proverbs 19:28
- Proverbs 21:3
- Proverbs 21:7
- Proverbs 21:15
- Proverbs 24:23
- Proverbs 28:5
- Proverbs 29:4
- Proverbs 29:26
- Ecclesiastes 3:16
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
- Ecclesiastes 8:5
- Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Ecclesiastes 11:9
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
- Isaiah 1:17
- Isaiah 1:21
- Isaiah 1:27
- Isaiah 3:14
- Isaiah 4:4
- Isaiah 5:7
- Isaiah 5:16
- Isaiah 9:7
- Isaiah 10:2
- Isaiah 16:5
- Isaiah 26:8
- Isaiah 26:9
- Isaiah 28:6
- Isaiah 28:17
- Isaiah 28:26
- Isaiah 30:18
- Isaiah 32:1
- Isaiah 32:7
- Isaiah 32:16
- Isaiah 33:5
- Isaiah 34:5
- Isaiah 40:14
- Isaiah 40:27
- Isaiah 41:1
- Isaiah 42:1
- Isaiah 42:3
- Isaiah 42:4
- Isaiah 49:4
- Isaiah 50:8
- Isaiah 51:4
- Isaiah 53:8
- Isaiah 54:17
- Isaiah 56:1
- Isaiah 58:2
- Isaiah 59:8
- Isaiah 59:9
- Isaiah 59:11
- Isaiah 59:14
- Isaiah 59:15
- Isaiah 61:8
- Jeremiah 1:16
- Jeremiah 4:2
- Jeremiah 4:12
- Jeremiah 5:1
- Jeremiah 5:4
- Jeremiah 5:5
- Jeremiah 5:28
- Jeremiah 7:5
- Jeremiah 8:7
- Jeremiah 9:24
- Jeremiah 10:24
- Jeremiah 12:1
- Jeremiah 17:11
- Jeremiah 21:12
- Jeremiah 22:3
- Jeremiah 22:13
- Jeremiah 22:15
- Jeremiah 23:5
- Jeremiah 26:11
- Jeremiah 26:16
- Jeremiah 30:11
- Jeremiah 30:18
- Jeremiah 32:7
- Jeremiah 32:8
- Jeremiah 33:15
- Jeremiah 39:5
- Jeremiah 46:28
- Jeremiah 48:21
- Jeremiah 48:47
- Jeremiah 49:12
- Jeremiah 51:9
- Jeremiah 52:9
- Lamentations 3:35
- Lamentations 3:59
- Ezekiel 5:6
- Ezekiel 5:7
- Ezekiel 5:8
- Ezekiel 7:23
- Ezekiel 7:27
- Ezekiel 11:12
- Ezekiel 11:20
- Ezekiel 16:38
- Ezekiel 18:5
- Ezekiel 18:8
- Ezekiel 18:9
- Ezekiel 18:17
- Ezekiel 18:19
- Ezekiel 18:21
- Ezekiel 18:27
- Ezekiel 20:11
- Ezekiel 20:13
- Ezekiel 20:16
- Ezekiel 20:18
- Ezekiel 20:19
- Ezekiel 20:21
- Ezekiel 20:24
- Ezekiel 20:25
- Ezekiel 21:27
- Ezekiel 22:29
- Ezekiel 23:24
- Ezekiel 23:45
- Ezekiel 33:14
- Ezekiel 33:16
- Ezekiel 33:19
- Ezekiel 34:16
- Ezekiel 36:27
- Ezekiel 37:24
- Ezekiel 39:21
- Ezekiel 42:11
- Ezekiel 44:24
- Ezekiel 45:9
- Daniel 9:5
- Hosea 2:19
- Hosea 5:1
- Hosea 5:11
- Hosea 6:5
- Hosea 10:4
- Hosea 12:6
- Amos 5:7
- Amos 5:15
- Amos 5:24
- Amos 6:12
- Micah 3:1
- Micah 3:8
- Micah 3:9
- Micah 6:8
- Micah 7:9
- Habakkuk 1:4
- Habakkuk 1:7
- Habakkuk 1:12
- Zephaniah 2:3
- Zephaniah 3:5
- Zephaniah 3:8