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H4941 · מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ · mish-pawt' · judgment, manner, right

H4941 (mishpâṭ, pronounced mish-pawt') is the Hebrew word מִשְׁפָּט in Strong’s dictionary: 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. It appears 410 times in 395 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).

Strong’s entry

Original word
מִשְׁפָּט (Hebrew)
Transliteration
mishpâṭ
Pronunciation
mish-pawt'
Derivation
from H8199 (שָׁפַט);
Definition
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
Rendered in the KJV
[phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] 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, [idiom] worthy, [phrase] wrong.

In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)

410 occurrences in 395 verses (407 with English words of their own, 3 in the original with no English word of their own).

How the BSB renders it

By book

Genesis 2 · Exodus 10 · Leviticus 14 · Numbers 19 · Deuteronomy 35 · 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 21 · Psalms 63 · Proverbs 18 · Ecclesiastes 6 · Isaiah 38 · Jeremiah 30 · Lamentations 2 · Ezekiel 37 · Daniel 1 · Hosea 6 · Amos 4 · Micah 5 · Habakkuk 3 · Zephaniah 4 · Zechariah 2 · Malachi 3

First 30 of 395 verses

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