Strong's #8199: shaphat (pronounced shaw-fat')
a primitive root; to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively):--+ avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâphaṭ
1) to judge, govern, vindicate, punish
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)
1a1a) to rule, govern, judge
1a2) to decide controversy (of God, man)
1a3) to execute judgment
1a3a) discriminating (of man)
1a3b) vindicating
1a3c) condemning and punishing
1a3d) at theophanic advent for final judgment
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together
1b2) to be judged
1c) (Poel) judge, opponent-at-law (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 203 times:
Judges 16:31: "of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years."
Ruth 1:1: "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man"
Ruth 1:1: "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man"
1 Samuel 3:13: "For I have told him that I will judge his house forever"
1 Samuel 4:18: "he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty"
1 Samuel 7:6: "We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh."
1 Samuel 7:15: "And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life."
1 Samuel 7:16: "in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in"
1 Samuel 7:17: "there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built"
1 Samuel 8:1: "that he made his sons judges over Israel."
1 Samuel 8:2: "and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba."
1 Samuel 8:5: "now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Samuel 8:6: "when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto"
1 Samuel 8:20: "like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight"
1 Samuel 12:7: "Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all"
1 Samuel 24:12: "The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not"
1 Samuel 24:15: "The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead"
1 Samuel 24:15: "and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand."
2 Samuel 7:11: "the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest"
2 Samuel 15:4: "said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which"
2 Samuel 18:19: "the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies."
2 Samuel 18:31: "the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all"
1 Kings 3:9: "therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between"
1 Kings 3:9: "for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?"
1 Kings 3:28: "the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king:"
1 Kings 7:7: "a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered"
1 Kings 8:32: "thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked,"
2 Kings 15:5: "son was over the house, judging the people of the land."
2 Kings 23:22: "such a passover from the days of the judges that judged"
2 Kings 23:22: "from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all"
1 Chronicles 16:33: "at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth."
1 Chronicles 17:6: "spoke I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded"
1 Chronicles 17:10: "And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel."
1 Chronicles 23:4: "of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:"
1 Chronicles 26:29: "over Israel, for officers and judges."
2 Chronicles 1:2: "to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel,"
2 Chronicles 1:10: "people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?"
2 Chronicles 1:11: "long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people,"
2 Chronicles 6:23: "from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked,"
2 Chronicles 19:5: "And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city"
2 Chronicles 19:6: "And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for"
2 Chronicles 19:6: "ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 20:12: "O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this"
2 Chronicles 22:8: "And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land."
Ezra 10:14: "and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath"
Job 9:15: "yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge."
Job 9:24: "of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who"
Job 12:17: "He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools."
Job 21:22: "God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high."
