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מִשְׁפָּט H4941

H4941 is the Hebrew word מִשְׁפָּט, transliterated mishpâṭ and said mish-pawt'. The King James Version most often renders it judgment.

Word: מִשְׁפָּטTransliteration: mishpâṭSaid: mish-pawt'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 341 verses

What it means

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.

Where it comes from

from H8199 (שָׁפַט).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 290 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

judgment 142×judgments 86×right 13×manner 12×cause 10×lawful 7×after the manner 6×ordinance 4×according to the manner 3×ordinances 3×according to the order 2×worthy 2×

Strong's own list of renderings: [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.

Verses using מִשְׁפָּט

The first 40 of 341 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 18:19 · KJV

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Genesis 40:13 · KJV

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Exodus 15:25 · KJV

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Exodus 21:1 · KJV

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Exodus 21:9 · KJV

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Exodus 21:31 · KJV

Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

Exodus 23:6 · KJV

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Exodus 24:3 · KJV

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

Exodus 26:30 · KJV

And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 28:15 · KJV

And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

Exodus 28:29 · KJV

And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.

Exodus 28:30 · KJV

And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

Leviticus 5:10 · KJV

And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 18:4 · KJV

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:5 · KJV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:26 · KJV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

Leviticus 19:15 · KJV

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Leviticus 19:35 · KJV

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Leviticus 19:37 · KJV

Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20:22 · KJV

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

Leviticus 24:22 · KJV

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 25:18 · KJV

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

Leviticus 26:15 · KJV

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

Leviticus 26:43 · KJV

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Leviticus 26:46 · KJV

These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 9:3 · KJV

In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

Numbers 9:14 · KJV

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

Numbers 15:16 · KJV

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Numbers 15:24 · KJV

Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

Numbers 27:5 · KJV

And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

Numbers 27:11 · KJV

And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 27:21 · KJV

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

Numbers 29:6 · KJV

Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

Numbers 35:29 · KJV

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Numbers 36:13 · KJV

These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Deuteronomy 1:17 · KJV

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 4:1 · KJV

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

Deuteronomy 4:5 · KJV

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4:8 · KJV

And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Deuteronomy 4:14 · KJV

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Common questions

What does Strong's H4941 mean?

H4941 is the Hebrew word מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ), meaning 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.

How is H4941 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it judgment (142 times), judgments (86 times), right (13 times), manner (12 times), cause (10 times), among others.

How many times does H4941 appear in the Bible?

מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ) is tagged in 341 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H4941 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H8199 (שָׁפַט).

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