מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ · mish-pawt'
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
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8199 (שָׁפַט);
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV 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.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › to speak, the word › to surround and contain
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy that works to speak, the word that works to surround and contain.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִשְׁפָּט above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
422 occurrences · 422 OT · 0 NT · 207 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- judgment51 · 22%
- of judgment20 · 9%
- my judgments18 · 8%
- and judgment16 · 7%
- in judgment13 · 6%
- and judgments13 · 6%
- after the manner11 · 5%
- and his judgments9 · 4%
- and the judgments8 · 3%
- thy judgments7 · 3%
- judgments7 · 3%
- that which is lawful7 · 3%
- for judgment7 · 3%
- and my judgments6 · 3%
- the judgment6 · 3%
- my judgment5 · 2%
- their cause5 · 2%
- right4 · 2%
- to judgment3 · 1%
- manner3 · 1%
- with judgment3 · 1%
- into judgment3 · 1%
- the right3 · 1%
- and an ordinance3 · 1%
- according to the manner2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.