מִשְׁפָּט

mish.patjustice: judgementHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine410 occurrences31 books395 verses
This word comes from the name of Hall of Judgment.

Definition

from H8199; 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
Traditional renderings: adversary, ceremony, charge, × 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, × worthy, wrong.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מִשְׁפָּט:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

410 total
  1. Genesis 18:19וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט · and just
    For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
  2. Genesis 18:25מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ · what is right
    Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
  3. Exodus 15:25וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט · and an ordinance
    And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
  4. Exodus 21:1הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים · are the ordinances
    “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
  5. Exodus 21:9כְּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט · as with
    And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.
  6. Exodus 21:31כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֥ט · rule
    If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
  7. Exodus 23:6מִשְׁפַּ֥ט · justice
    You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
  8. Exodus 24:3הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑ים · ordinances
    When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
  9. Exodus 26:30כְּמִ֨שְׁפָּט֔וֹ · according to the pattern
    So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  10. Exodus 28:15מִשְׁפָּט֙ · of judgment
    You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
  11. Exodus 28:29הַמִּשְׁפָּ֛ט · of judgment
    Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.
  12. Exodus 28:30הַמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט · of judgment; מִשְׁפַּ֨ט · the judgment
    And place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will continually carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the LORD.
  13. Leviticus 5:10כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט · according to the ordinance
    And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
  14. Leviticus 9:16כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · according to the ordinance
    He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.
  15. Leviticus 18:4מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י · My judgments
    You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
  16. Leviticus 18:5מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י · My judgments
    Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
  17. Leviticus 18:26מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י · and ordinances
    But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
  18. Leviticus 19:15בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֔ט · justice
    You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
  19. Leviticus 19:35בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט · measures
    You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
  20. Leviticus 19:37מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י · My ordinances
    You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
  21. Leviticus 20:22מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י · ordinances
    You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  22. Leviticus 24:22מִשְׁפַּ֤ט · standard of law
    You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
  23. Leviticus 25:18מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י · My judgments
    You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
  24. Leviticus 26:15מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י · My ordinances
    …and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
  25. Leviticus 26:43בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י · My ordinances
    For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
  26. Leviticus 26:46וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים֮ · ordinances
    These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
  27. Numbers 9:3מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו · and ordinances
    You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
  28. Numbers 9:14וּכְמִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ · and its ordinances
    If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
  29. Numbers 15:16וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט · ordinance
    The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
  30. Numbers 15:24כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֑ט · according to the regulation
    …and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
  31. Numbers 27:5מִשְׁפָּטָ֖ן · their case
    So Moses brought their case before the LORD,
  32. Numbers 27:11מִשְׁפָּ֔ט · ordinance
    And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
  33. Numbers 27:21בְּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט · by the judgment
    He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”
  34. Numbers 29:6כְּמִשְׁפָּטָ֑ם · with their prescribed
    These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
  35. Numbers 29:18כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  36. Numbers 29:21כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  37. Numbers 29:24כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  38. Numbers 29:27כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  39. Numbers 29:30כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  40. Numbers 29:33כְּמִשְׁפָּטָֽם׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  41. Numbers 29:37כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · prescribed
    …along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
  42. Numbers 35:12לַמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃ · trial
    You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
  43. Numbers 35:24הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֖ים · ordinances
    …then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
  44. Numbers 35:29מִשְׁפָּ֖ט · ordinance
    This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.
  45. Numbers 36:13וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֗ים · and ordinances
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  46. Deuteronomy 1:17בַּמִּשְׁפָּ֗ט · in judging; הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט · judgment
    Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
  47. Deuteronomy 4:1הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים · and ordinances
    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  48. Deuteronomy 4:5וּמִשְׁפָּטִ֔ים · and ordinances
    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.