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Strong's H4941 מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat)

Mishpat means “custom” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4941 — syntyche in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4941
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 406
Books 31

Strong's H4941 Quick Answer

Strong's H4941 מִשׁפָּט (mishpat) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mishpat (mish-pawt') n-m. 1. (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 2... It has 406 linked Bible usages across 31 books. Visible English usage signals include sentence and justice. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
mishpat (mish-pawt') n-m. 1. (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 2...
Usage
406 linked usages
Books
31 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
sentence and justice

Meaning and Definition

mishpat (mish-pawt') n-m. 1. (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 2.

abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style [from H8199] KJV: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X 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, X worthy, + wrong. Root(s): H8199

Original Word
מִשׁפָּט
Transliteration
mishpat
Derivation
Root: שׁפט First root strongs: 8199
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4941. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

justice: judgement

Usage: : judgement/punishment 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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How Strong's H4941 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mishpat, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sentence Deuteronomy 17:9 justice Genesis 18:19

How Strong's H4941 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 406 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4941 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H4941 in the Old Testament

406 indexed usages in Old Testament.

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 18:25 KJV

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4941.

Genesis 18:19 Old Testament, 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 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis 40:13 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Exodus 21:9 Old Testament, KJV
And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
Exodus 21:31 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus 24:3 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus 28:15 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
Leviticus 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:5 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus 19:37 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:22 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Numbers 15:24 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
Numbers 27:11 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:21 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:24 Old Testament, KJV
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:27 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:30 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:33 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:37 Old Testament, KJV
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 35:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Numbers 35:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Numbers 35:29 Old Testament, KJV
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Numbers 36:13 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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.
Deuteronomy 4:45 Old Testament, KJV
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
Deuteronomy 5:31 Old Testament, KJV
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deuteronomy 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Deuteronomy 6:20 Old Testament, KJV
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy 7:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Deuteronomy 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
Deuteronomy 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:18 Old Testament, KJV
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
Deuteronomy 17:11 Old Testament, KJV
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 18:3 Old Testament, KJV
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
Deuteronomy 19:6 Old Testament, KJV
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy 21:17 Old Testament, KJV
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Deuteronomy 21:22 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy 25:1 Old Testament, KJV
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 26:16 Old Testament, KJV
This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 26:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Deuteronomy 27:19 Old Testament, KJV
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy 32:4 Old Testament, KJV
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:41 Old Testament, KJV
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Deuteronomy 33:10 Old Testament, KJV
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
Deuteronomy 33:21 Old Testament, KJV
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
Joshua 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
Joshua 20:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua 24:25 Old Testament, KJV
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Judges 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judges 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Judges 18:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
1 Samuel 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
1 Samuel 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1 Samuel 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
1 Samuel 10:25 Old Testament, KJV
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 30:25 Old Testament, KJV
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
2 Samuel 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
2 Samuel 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:4 Old Testament, KJV
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
2 Samuel 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
1 Kings 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
1 Kings 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
1 Kings 3:28 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 Kings 4:28 Old Testament, KJV
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
1 Kings 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
1 Kings 6:38 Old Testament, KJV
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 Kings 7:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
1 Kings 8:45 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings 8:49 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
1 Kings 8:58 Old Testament, KJV
That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kings 8:59 Old Testament, KJV
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
1 Kings 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
1 Kings 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
1 Kings 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
1 Kings 18:28 Old Testament, KJV
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
1 Kings 20:40 Old Testament, KJV
And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
2 Kings 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2 Kings 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2 Kings 17:26 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2 Kings 17:27 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4941, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 10 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 14 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 19 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 36 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 16 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 9 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 9 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 13 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 2 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 23 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 64 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 20 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 6 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 40 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 32 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 37 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 6 usages, Old Testament
Amos 4 usages, Old Testament
Micah 5 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 3 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 4 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H4941 FAQ

What does mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט) mean?

Mishpat (Strong's H4941) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "custom". mishpat (mish-pawt') n-m. 1. (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 2...

How many times is mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 406 linked usages for Strong's H4941 across 31 books.

Where can I study mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4941 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sentence and justice. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.