Strong's H4941 (Hebrew)[edit | edit source]

Lemma: מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ)

Pronunciation: mish-pawt'

POS: mish-pawt' Morph: n-m

Exegesis: from ;

Definition: from 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; [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.

KJV Usage: [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.

Senses[edit | edit source]

• 1. 1) judgment, justice, ordinance
• 2. 1a) judgment
• 3. 1a1) act of deciding a case
• 4. 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment
• 5. 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges)
• 6. 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment)
• 7. 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment)
• 8. 1a6) execution (of judgment)
• 9. 1a7) time (of judgment)
• 10. 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man)
• 11. 1c) ordinance
• 12. 1d) decision (in law)
• 13. 1e) right, privilege, due (legal)
• 14. 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

Cross References[edit | edit source]

• GREEK G92
• GREEK G226
• GREEK G746
• GREEK G1342
• GREEK G1343
• GREEK G1345
• GREEK G1347
• GREEK G1349
• GREEK G1491
• GREEK G1785
• GREEK G1995
• GREEK G2520
• GREEK G2917
• GREEK G2920
• GREEK G2922
• GREEK G3551

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