H8199: שָׁפַט
shâphaṭ · pronounced shaw-fat' · “to judge”
Definition
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV translates it as: [phrase] avenge, [idiom] that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), [idiom] needs, plead, reason, rule.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)
1a1a) to rule, govern, judge
1a2) to decide controversy (of God, man)
1a3) to execute judgment
1a3a) discriminating (of man)
1a3b) vindicating
1a3c) condemning and punishing
1a3d) at theophanic advent for final judgment
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together
1b2) to be judged
1c) (Poel) judge, opponent-at-law (participle)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8199 is translated
- judge ×20
- judges ×17
- he judged ×16
- he will judge ×10
- you ×8
- i will judge ×8
- they will judge ×6
- you will judge ×6
- its ×6
- will you judge ×6
- me ×5
- i will enter into judgment ×5
Bible verses with H8199 (shâphaṭ)
Shâphaṭ appears in 182 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
- 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 19:9
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
- Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
- Exodus 5:21
And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 18:13
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
- Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
- Exodus 18:22
And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
- Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
- 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.
- Numbers 25:5
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal–peor.
- Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
- Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
- Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
- Deuteronomy 17:9
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
- Deuteronomy 17:12
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 19:17
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
- Deuteronomy 19:18
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
- Deuteronomy 21:2
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
- Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
- Deuteronomy 25:2
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
- Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Joshua 23:2
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
- Joshua 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
All 182 references
- Judges 2:16
- Judges 2:17
- Judges 2:18
- Judges 2:19
- Judges 3:10
- Judges 4:4
- Judges 10:2
- Judges 10:3
- Judges 11:27
- Judges 12:7
- Judges 12:8
- Judges 12:9
- Judges 12:11
- Judges 12:13
- Judges 12:14
- Judges 15:20
- Judges 16:31
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 3:13
- 1 Samuel 4:18
- 1 Samuel 7:6
- 1 Samuel 7:15
- 1 Samuel 7:16
- 1 Samuel 7:17
- 1 Samuel 8:1
- 1 Samuel 8:2
- 1 Samuel 8:5
- 1 Samuel 8:6
- 1 Samuel 8:20
- 1 Samuel 12:7
- 1 Samuel 24:12
- 1 Samuel 24:15
- 2 Samuel 7:11
- 2 Samuel 15:4
- 2 Samuel 18:19
- 2 Samuel 18:31
- 1 Kings 3:9
- 1 Kings 3:28
- 1 Kings 7:7
- 1 Kings 8:32
- 2 Kings 15:5
- 2 Kings 23:22
- 1 Chronicles 16:33
- 1 Chronicles 17:6
- 1 Chronicles 17:10
- 1 Chronicles 23:4
- 1 Chronicles 26:29
- 2 Chronicles 1:2
- 2 Chronicles 1:10
- 2 Chronicles 1:11
- 2 Chronicles 6:23
- 2 Chronicles 19:5
- 2 Chronicles 19:6
- 2 Chronicles 20:12
- 2 Chronicles 22:8
- 2 Chronicles 26:21
- Ezra 10:14
- Job 9:15
- Job 9:24
- Job 12:17
- Job 21:22
- Job 22:13
- Job 23:7
- Psalms 2:10
- Psalms 7:8
- Psalms 7:11
- Psalms 9:4
- Psalms 9:8
- Psalms 9:19
- Psalms 10:18
- Psalms 26:1
- Psalms 35:24
- Psalms 37:33
- Psalms 43:1
- Psalms 50:6
- Psalms 51:4
- Psalms 58:1
- Psalms 58:11
- Psalms 67:4
- Psalms 72:4
- Psalms 75:2
- Psalms 75:7
- Psalms 82:1
- Psalms 82:2
- Psalms 82:3
- Psalms 82:8
- Psalms 94:2
- Psalms 96:13
- Psalms 98:9
- Psalms 109:7
- Psalms 109:31
- Psalms 141:6
- Psalms 148:11
- Proverbs 8:16
- Proverbs 29:9
- Proverbs 29:14
- Proverbs 31:9
- Ecclesiastes 3:17
- Isaiah 1:17
- Isaiah 1:23
- Isaiah 1:26
- Isaiah 2:4
- Isaiah 3:2
- Isaiah 5:3
- Isaiah 11:3
- Isaiah 11:4
- Isaiah 16:5
- Isaiah 33:22
- Isaiah 40:23
- Isaiah 43:26
- Isaiah 51:5
- Isaiah 59:4
- Isaiah 66:16
- Jeremiah 2:35
- Jeremiah 5:28
- Jeremiah 11:20
- Jeremiah 25:31
- Lamentations 3:59
- Ezekiel 7:3
- Ezekiel 7:8
- Ezekiel 7:27
- Ezekiel 11:10
- Ezekiel 11:11
- Ezekiel 16:38
- Ezekiel 17:20
- Ezekiel 18:30
- Ezekiel 20:4
- Ezekiel 20:35
- Ezekiel 20:36
- Ezekiel 21:30
- Ezekiel 22:2
- Ezekiel 23:24
- Ezekiel 23:36
- Ezekiel 23:45
- Ezekiel 24:14
- Ezekiel 33:20
- Ezekiel 34:17
- Ezekiel 34:20
- Ezekiel 34:22
- Ezekiel 35:11
- Ezekiel 36:19
- Ezekiel 38:22
- Ezekiel 44:24
- Daniel 9:12
- Hosea 7:7
- Hosea 13:10
- Joel 3:2
- Joel 3:12
- Amos 2:3
- Obadiah 1:21
- Micah 3:11
- Micah 4:3
- Micah 5:1
- Micah 7:3
- Zephaniah 3:3
- Zechariah 7:9
- Zechariah 8:16
Words derived from H8199
אֱלִישָׁפָט H478
ʼĔlîyshâphâṭ — Elishaphat
יְהוֹשָׁפָט H3092
Yᵉhôwshâphâṭ — Jehoshaphat
מִשְׁפָּט H4941
mishpâṭ — justice: judgement
שְׁפוֹט H8196
shᵉphôwṭ — judgment
שְׁפַט H8200
shᵉphaṭ — to judge
שֶׁפֶט H8201
shepheṭ — judgment
שָׁפָט H8202
Shâphâṭ — Shaphat
שְׁפַטְיָה H8203
Shᵉphaṭyâh — Shephatiah
שִׁפְטָן H8204
Shiphṭân — Shiphtan
תִּפְתַּי H8614
tiphtay — magistrate