Mishpâṭ — H4941

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. judgment, justice, ordinance
1. judgment
1. act of deciding a case
2. place, court, seat of judgment
3. process, procedure, litigation (before judges)
4. case, cause (presented for judgment)
5. sentence, decision (of judgment)
6. execution (of judgment)
7. time (of judgment)
2. justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man)
3. ordinance
4. decision (in law)
5. right, privilege, due (legal)
6. proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

Usually translated as

judgment, manner, right, lawful, order, ordinance, worthy, custom, discretion, fashion, law, measure, sentence, adversary, charge, determination, disposing, due, form, to be judged, just, justice, justly, wrong, ceremony, crime, desert, usest

Origin

from H8199

• Derived from Shâphaṭ (H8199)

Greek equivalents

• adíkēma (G92)
• alētheúō (G226)
• archḗ (G746)
• díkaios (G1342)
• dikaiosýnē (G1343)
• dikaíōma (G1345)
• dikaíōsis (G1347)
• díkē (G1349)
• eîdos (G1491)
• entolḗ (G1785)
• epistrophḗ (G1995)
• kathḗkō (G2520)
• kríma (G2917)
• krísis (G2920)
• kritḗrion (G2922)
• nómos (G3551)

Occurrences

Mishpâṭ occurs 421 times in 406 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Exodus (10), Leviticus (14), Numbers (19), Deuteronomy (36), Joshua (3), Judges (3), 1 Samuel (7), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Kings (16), 2 Kings (9), 1 Chronicles (9), 2 Chronicles (13), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (5), Job (23), Psalms (64), Proverbs (20), Ecclesiastes (6), Isaiah (40), Jeremiah (32), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (37), Daniel (1), Hosea (6), Amos (4), Micah (5), Habakkuk (3), Zephaniah (4), Zechariah (2), Malachi (3)

• 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 (וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט); 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 (מִשְׁפָּֽט)?
• 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 (כַּמִּשְׁפָּט֙) 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 (וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט), and there he proved them,
• Exodus 21:1 — Now these are the judgments (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים) 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 (כְּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט) of daughters.
• Exodus 21:31 — Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment (כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֥ט) shall it be done unto him.
• Exodus 23:6 — Thou shalt not wrest the judgment (מִשְׁפַּ֥ט) 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 (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑ים): 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 (כְּמִ֨שְׁפָּט֔וֹ) thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
• Exodus 28:15 — And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment (מִשְׁפָּט֙) 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 (הַמִּשְׁפָּ֛ט) 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 (הַמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט) 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.
• 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 (מִשְׁפַּ֨ט) 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 (כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט): 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 (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט).
• Leviticus 18:4 — Ye shall do my judgments (מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י), 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 (מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י): 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 (מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י), 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 (בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט): 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 (בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט), in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
• Leviticus 19:37 — Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments (מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י), and do them: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 20:22 — Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments (מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י), 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 (מִשְׁפַּ֤ט), 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 (מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י), 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 (מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י), so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
• Leviticus 26:43 — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments (בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י), and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
• Leviticus 26:46 — These are the statutes and judgments (וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים֮) and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
• Numbers 9:3 — In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies (מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו) thereof, shall ye keep it.
• Numbers 9:14 — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner (וּכְמִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ) thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
• Numbers 15:16 — One law and one manner (וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט) shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
• Numbers 15:24 — Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט), and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
• Numbers 27:5 — And Moses brought their cause (מִשְׁפָּטָ֖ן) before the LORD.
• Numbers 27:11 — And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment (מִשְׁפָּ֔ט), as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Numbers 27:21 — And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment (בְּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט) of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
• Numbers 29:6 — Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner (כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם), for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
• Numbers 29:18 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 29:21 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 29:24 — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 29:27 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 29:30 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 29:33 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כְּמִשְׁפָּטָֽם):
• Numbers 29:37 — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner (כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט):
• Numbers 35:12 — And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment (לַמִּשְׁפָּֽט).
• Numbers 35:24 — Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים):
• Numbers 35:29 — So these things shall be for a statute of judgment (מִשְׁפָּ֖ט) unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Numbers 36:13 — These are the commandments and the judgments (וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים), which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
• Deuteronomy 1:17 — Ye shall not respect persons in judgment (בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט); but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
• Deuteronomy 1:17 — Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment (הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט) is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
• Deuteronomy 4:1 — Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים), which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.