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:
Isaiah 43:26: "Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified."
Isaiah 51:5: "my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon"
Isaiah 59:4: "calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity,"
Isaiah 66:16: "by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain"
Jeremiah 2:35: "shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned."
Jeremiah 5:28: "and the right of the needy do they not judge."
Jeremiah 11:20: "But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see"
Jeremiah 25:31: "hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked"
Lamentations 3:59: "O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause."
Ezekiel 7:3: "come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee"
Ezekiel 7:8: "my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense"
Ezekiel 7:27: "I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I"
Ezekiel 11:10: "Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 11:11: "be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:"
Ezekiel 16:38: " And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury"
Ezekiel 17:20: "in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that"
Ezekiel 18:30: "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 20:4: " Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:"
Ezekiel 20:4: "Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:"
Ezekiel 20:35: "the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face."
Ezekiel 20:36: "Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so"
Ezekiel 20:36: "of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 21:30: "Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land"
Ezekiel 22:2: "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city?"
Ezekiel 22:2: "son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show"
Ezekiel 23:24: "and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments."
Ezekiel 23:36: "moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare"
Ezekiel 23:45: "And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed"
Ezekiel 24:14: "will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 33:20: "is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways."
Ezekiel 34:17: "the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams"
Ezekiel 34:20: "unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between"
Ezekiel 34:22: "more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle."
Ezekiel 35:11: "out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged"
Ezekiel 36:19: "through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged"
Ezekiel 38:22: " And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands,"
Ezekiel 44:24: "controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws"
Ezekiel 44:24: "they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes"
Daniel 9:12: "he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon"
Daniel 9:12: "us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil:"
Hosea 7:7: "They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen:"
Hosea 13:10: "is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king"
Joel 3:2: "into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people"
Joel 3:12: "for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about."
Amos 2:3: "And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with"
Obadiah 1:21: "shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom"
Micah 3:11: "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine"
Micah 4:3: " And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off;"
Micah 5:1: "against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek."
Micah 7:3: "with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he"
