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:
Job 22:13: "How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?"
Job 23:7: "with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge."
Psalms 2:10: "now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth."
Psalms 7:8: "The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in"
Psalms 7:11: "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day."
Psalms 9:4: "and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right."
Psalms 9:8: "And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness."
Psalms 9:19: "man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight."
Psalms 10:18: " To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more"
Psalms 26:1: "A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted"
Psalms 35:24: " Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice"
Psalms 37:33: "him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged."
Psalms 43:1: " Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:"
Psalms 50:6: "his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah."
Psalms 51:4: "thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."
Psalms 58:1: "speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?"
Psalms 58:11: "verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth."
Psalms 67:4: "be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations"
Psalms 72:4: " He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor."
Psalms 75:2: "I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly."
Psalms 75:7: "But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another."
Psalms 82:1: "standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods."
Psalms 82:2: "How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."
Psalms 82:3: " Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
Psalms 82:8: "Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all"
Psalms 94:2: "Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud."
Psalms 96:13: "he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness,"
Psalms 96:13: "he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth."
Psalms 98:9: "to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity."
Psalms 98:9: "the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world,"
Psalms 109:7: " When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin."
Psalms 109:31: "at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul."
Psalms 141:6: " When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet."
Psalms 148:11: "people; princes, and all judges of the earth:"
Proverbs 8:16: "rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth."
Proverbs 29:9: "If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh,"
Proverbs 29:14: "The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established forever."
Proverbs 31:9: "Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."
Ecclesiastes 3:17: "said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for"
Isaiah 1:17: "judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1:23: "gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause"
Isaiah 1:26: "And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called,"
Isaiah 2:4: " And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords"
Isaiah 3:2: "The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,"
Isaiah 5:3: "of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard."
Isaiah 11:3: "in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove"
Isaiah 11:4: "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite"
Isaiah 16:5: "it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness."
Isaiah 33:22: "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he"
Isaiah 40:23: "the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity."
