Lexical Summary mishpat: judgment Original Word: מִשְׁפָטTransliteration: mishpat Phonetic Spelling: (mish-pawt') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: judgment Meaning: a verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style Strong's Concordance adversary, ceremony, charge, crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, From shaphat; 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 -- + adversary, ceremony, charge, X 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, X worthy, + wrong. see HEBREW shaphat Brown-Driver-Briggs H4941. mishpat מִשְׁמָּט422 noun masculineGenesis 40:13 judgment; — absolute מִשְׁמָּט Exodus 21:31 203t., + לְשְִׁ֯מָּט Ezekiel 44:24 (but read Kt לִשְׁמֹּט with ᵑ6 ᵑ7 ᵐ5 Co and others); construct מִשְׁמַּט Exodus 23:6 50t.; suffix מִשְׁמָּטִי Isaiah 40:27 +; מִשְׁמָּטָם Jeremiah 49:12 +; מִשְׁמָּטָן Numbers 27:5; plural מִשְׁמָּטִים Jeremiah 4:12 34t.; suffix מִשְׁמָּטֶיךָ Deuteronomy 33:10 +, etc.; — 1 judgment: a. act of deciding a case: ׳מ be-longeth to God Deuteronomy 1:17, is from him Proverbs 16:33; 29:26; הַמּ ׳אֱלֹהֵי Malachi 2:17; מ ׳חשֶׁן Exodus 28:15 the pouch of judgment, so 28:29; 28:30 (P); worn on heart of Aaron 28:30 (P); ׳מ צֶדֶק Deuteronomy 16:18; מ ׳הֵבִין Job 32:9; מ ׳שׁפט 1 Kings 3:28; מ ׳עשׂה 3:28; (ה)מ ׳דְּבַר Deuteronomy 17:9; 2 Chronicles 19:6; מ ׳רוח Isaiah 28:6; במשׁפט Leviticus 19:15, 35 (H) Deuteronomy 1:17; Proverbs 16:10; 24:23; ׳במ חאורים Numbers 27:21 (P); למשׁפט 35:12; Joshua 20:6 (P) Deuteronomy 17:8; Judges 4:5; 2 Samuel 15:2, 6; 2 Chronicles 19:8; Isaiah 34:5; 41:1; 54:17; 59:11; Habakkuk 1:12; Malachi 3:5; Psalm 9:8; 35:23; 76:10; 122:5; Job 9:19 (Ezekiel 44:24 see above). b. place, court seat of judgment Deuteronomy 25:1; 1 Kings 7:7; Isaiah 28:6; Ecclesiastes 3:16. c. process, procedure, litigation before judges: במ ׳הֵבִיא Job 14:3; Ecclesiastes 11:9; 12:14; במ ׳בא, with עם Isaiah 3:14; Job 22:4, with את Psalm 143:2, with יחדו Job 9:32, במ ׳חלד 34:23, compare Ezekiel 34:16; Psalm 112:5; plural משׁפטים דבּר, with את litigate with Jeremiah 1:16; 4:12; 12:1; 39:5 = 52:9, singular מִשְׁמָּט in "" 2 Kings 25:6, by error. d. case or cause presented for judgment: מ ׳בעל Isaiah 50:8; מ ׳ערךְ Job 13:18; 23:4; מ ׳שׁמע 1 Kings 3:11; מ ׳שׁפט Lamentations 3:59, compare Numbers 27:5 (P) 2 Samuel 15:4. e. sentence, decision of judgment: משׁפטךָ כן 1 Kings 20:40 thus is thy sentence; ומ ׳עת Ecclesiastes 8:5-6, time and sentence; מ ׳על Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the sentence; ׳מ מָוֶת 19:6; 21:22; Jeremiah 26:11, 16; ׳מ דמים Ezekiel 7:23, compare Habakkuk 1:4 (twice in verse); Psalm 7:7; 17:2; Ezekiel 23:45; plural only Ezekiel 16:68 נאפות משׁפטֵי; Hosea 6:5 read singular בָאוֺד מִשְׁמָּטִי for אוֺר מִשְׁמָּטֶיךָ after ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Ew Hi Che and most modern f. execution of judgment, in General, מ ׳עשׂה, with בֵּין Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:8, compare Deuteronomy 32:41; Zephaniah 3:8; with בְּ against Psalm 119:84; 149:9; ב omitted 9:17; Ezekiel 39:21, ׳מ אל בא Jeremiah 48:21, מ ׳ברוח Isaiah 4:4, ׳מ מואב Jeremiah 48:47, compare Isaiah 53:8; Jeremiah 51:9; Hosea 5:1, 11; 10:4; Job 36:17; plural Isaiah 26:8-9, Ezekiel 5:8; Zephaniah 3:15; Psalm 10:5; in favour of, משׁפטִי עשׂה Micah 7:9; Psalm 9:5; ׳מ לעשׁוקים 146:7; מ ׳דין והציל Jeremiah 21:12, compare Zechariah 7:9; 8:16; plural Psalm 48:12 = 97:8Psalm 6; Psalm 5; 7= 1 Chronicles 16:12, 14. g. time of judgment, במ יקומו ׳לִא Psalm 1:5 (late; probably judgment of the resurrection). 2 attribute of the שֹׁפֵט, justice, right, rectitude: a. of God, מ ׳אלהי Isaiah 30:18; מ יַעֲשֶׂה לֹא כָּלהָֿאָרֶץ ׳הֲשֹׁפֵט Genesis 18:25 (J), compare Job 40:8; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 111:7; he loves it 33:5; 37:28; 99:4; ומ ׳צדק Hosea 2:21; Psalm 89:15 = 97:2; will not pervert it Job 8:3; 34:12, compare 37:23; כמשׁפטךָ Psalm 119:149 ("" חסדךָ); רָבָּה תְּהוֺם מִשְׁמָּֽטְךָ 36:7 (read singular). b. of man: מ שֹׁמְרֵי ׳אַשְׁרֵי Psalm 106:8 ("" צדקה); the tongue of the wise speaketh ׳מ 37:30; so of thoughts ׳מ Proverbs 12:5; put on ׳מ as robe Job 29:14, chosen 34:4; מ ׳עשׂה: God requires that man should do it Micah 6:8; Isaiah 1:17; 56:1, compare 61:8; it is the joy of the righteous Proverbs 21:15; rulers should know it Micah 3:1, compare Proverbs 29:4; wicked ruler מ ׳שׂוֺנֵא Job 34:17; abhors it Micah 3:9, compare Proverbs 19:28; 21:7; 28:5. 3 ordinance promulgated by שֹׁפֵט: 1 Samuel 8:9, 11; 10:25 (law of king); Levitical ordinances Leviticus 5:10; 9:16 13t. P, 1 Chronicles 15:13; 24:19; 2 Chronicles 4:7, 20; 8:14; 35:13; Nehemiah 8:18; ומ ׳חק Exodus 15:25; Joshua 24:25 (E) 1 Samuel 30:25, compare Psalm 81:5; מ ׳חקת Numbers 27:11; 35:29 (P); divine law in General ׳מ יהוה Jeremiah 8:7; אלהים ׳מ Isaiah 58:2; Jeremiah 5:4-5, ("" דֶּרֶךְ), compare Psalm 25:9; "" תורה Isaiah 42:4; 51:4; Ezra 7:10; compare Zephaniah 2:3; Psalm 119:43; 119:160; plural of particular ordinances Deuteronomy 33:10, 21 (poem), Isaiah 58:2; Ezekiel 44:24; Psalm 19:10; 119:7 16t., 147:20. 4 decision of the שֹׁפֵט in a case of law (see BrHexateuch 252 sq.): singular of particular decision of a case Exodus 21:31 (E); plural of series of decisions 21:1; 24:3 (JE) Deuteronomy 7:12 (D2); in covt. code and D, collection of pentads in conditional or temporal compare, with כּי or אם in D, and subject in combination, ומשׁפטים חקים 4:1. 5. 8. 14. 45 +; in code of H and after, in combination ומשׁפטים חקות, Leviticus 18:4-5, 26; 19:37 +; (the specific type of these laws in H is כִּי אִישׁ, over against כי נפשׁ or כי אדם in code of P, see BrHexateuch 254 f.); other combinations, redactional and later, 26:46; Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 30:16; 2 Kings 17:37; 2 Chronicles 33:8; Nehemiah 9:13; Psalm 18:23; 89:31; 147:19. 5 one's (legal) right, privilege, due: ׳מ הַכּהֲנִים Deuteronomy 18:3 due of the priests, ׳מ הַבְּכֹרָה 21:17; הַגְּאֻלָּה ׳מ Jeremiah 32:7 right of redemption; ׳מ הַיְרֻשָּׁה 32:8; מ ׳הִטָּה Exodus 23:6 (E) wrest right, so Deuteronomy 16:19; 23:6; 24:17; 27:19; 1 Samuel 8:3; Lamentations 3:35, compare Proverbs 18:5; ׳מ יְתוֺם Deuteronomy 10:18; ׳מ אביון Exodus 23:6 (E) Jeremiah 5:28; Psalm 140:13; עניים׳מ Isaiah 10:2; Job 36:6; מ ׳הסיר 27:2; 34:5, compare Isaiah 40:27; 49:4. 6. a. proper, fitting, measure 1 Kings 5:8; fitness Isaiah 28:26; 40:14 (of fitness in the order of nature; compare Di). b. custom, manner: ׳מ הכהנים 1 Samuel 2:13 custom of the priests (rightful due, according to Th We Dr and most); מִשְׁמָּטוֺ 27:11 his (David's) custom; הגוים ׳מ 2 Kings 17:33 manner of the nations, compare 17:26-27, (Rssem. 1, 24, 2nd ed. 23); ׳כמ after the manner, custom, fashion (of) Genesis 40:13; Exodus 21:9 (E) Judges 18:7; 1 Kings 18:28; 2 Kings 11:14; 17:34; 1 Chronicles 6:17; Ezekiel 42:11; Psalm 119:132. c. משׁפט מה Judges 13:12 what manner of a boy, compare 2 Kings 1:7. d. plan . . . of the tabernacle Exodus 26:30 (P); temple 1 Kings 6:38; palace Jeremiah 30:18. |
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