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מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ · Hebrew · Strong's H4941 · 421 occurrences

What it means

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

from H8199 (שָׁפַט);

How the KJV renders it

ceremony, charge, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, justice, law, manner, measure, order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

Questions this word decides

• Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
• What does John 3:5 mean ('born of water and Spirit')?
• What does 1 Timothy 2:12 mean about women teaching?
• What does it mean to be born again?

Where it appears

421 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.