Strong's #4941: mishpat (pronounced mish-pawt')
from 8199; 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mishpâṭ
1) judgment, justice, ordinance
1a) judgment
1a1) act of deciding a case
1a2) place, court, seat of judgment
1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges)
1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment)
1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment)
1a6) execution (of judgment)
1a7) time (of judgment)
1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man)
1c) ordinance
1d) decision (in law)
1e) right, privilege, due (legal)
1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H8199
Usage:
This word is used 421 times:
Amos 5:15: "and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God"
Amos 5:24: " But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
Amos 6:12: "there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"
Micah 3:1: "Is it not for you to know judgment?"
Micah 3:8: "by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression,"
Micah 3:9: "of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity."
Micah 6:8: "of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk"
Micah 7:9: "he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness."
Habakkuk 1:4: "Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:"
Habakkuk 1:4: "doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth."
Habakkuk 1:7: "They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of"
Habakkuk 1:12: "we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction."
Zephaniah 2:3: "of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness:"
Zephaniah 3:5: "iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not;"
Zephaniah 3:8: "that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms,"
Zephaniah 3:15: "The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD,"
Zechariah 7:9: "saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man"
Zechariah 8:16: "to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:"
Malachi 2:17: "in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?"
Malachi 3:5: "And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,"
Malachi 4:4: "all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."
