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Word Study · Strong's H4941 · Hebrew

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpat

mish-pawt'

Strong's 1890 spelling: mishpâṭ

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

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

[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.

  • 422
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 31 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 207
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 422 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 207

  • מִשְׁפָּ֑ט21
  • מִשְׁפָּֽט׃18
  • מִשְׁפָּ֖ט16
  • מִשְׁפָּ֔ט10
  • מִשְׁפָּ֥ט9
  • כַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃8
  • מִשְׁפַּ֥ט8
  • מִשְׁפַּט־8
  • מִשְׁפַּ֖ט7
  • מִשְׁפַּ֣ט7
  • מִשְׁפָּט֙7
  • וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט6

and 195 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 118

  • justice74
  • judgments my18
  • judgments your15
  • and justice14
  • according to the ordinance13
  • judgment13
  • the judgments11
  • for the judgment10
  • and judgments his9
  • in the judgment9
  • and the judgments8
  • the judgment8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 47

  • noun · masculine singular96
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular43
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)38
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular26
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular22
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular18
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular14
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular14
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural12
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular9
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural8
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 96
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 43
  • HNcmsc · 38
  • HR/Ncmsa · 26
  • HC/Ncmsa · 22
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 18
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 14
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 14
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 13
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 12
  • HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 9
  • HC/Td/Ncmpa · 8

All 422, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis3 occurrences
Exodus11 occurrences
Leviticus14 occurrences
Numbers19 occurrences
Deuteronomy37 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges3 occurrences
1 Samuel7 occurrences
2 Samuel5 occurrences
1 Kings18 occurrences
2 Kings11 occurrences
1 Chronicles9 occurrences
2 Chronicles13 occurrences
Ezra2 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Job23 occurrences
Psalms65 occurrences
Proverbs20 occurrences
Ecclesiastes6 occurrences
Isaiah42 occurrences
Jeremiah32 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel43 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea6 occurrences
Amos4 occurrences
Micah5 occurrences
Habakkuk4 occurrences
Zephaniah4 occurrences
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi3 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).