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Strong H8199שָׁפַט

to judge

Transliteration
shâphaţ
Pronunciation
shaw-fat'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to {judge} that {is} pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication to vindicate or punish; by extension to govern; passively to litigate (literally or figuratively): - + {avenge} X that {condemn} {contend} {defend} execute ({judgment}) (be a) judge ({-ment}) X {needs} {plead} {reason} rule.

Detailed definition

1) to judge, govern, vindicate, punish
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)
1a1a) to rule, govern, judge
1a2) to decide controversy (of God, man)
1a3) to execute judgment
1a3a) discriminating (of man)
1a3b) vindicating
1a3c) condemning and punishing
1a3d) at theophanic advent for final judgment
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together
1b2) to be judged
1c) (Poel) judge, opponent-at-law (participle)

In the Bible

Strong H8199 appears in 182 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • judge157
  • plead9
  • judgeth5
  • avenge2
  • execute2
  • judgment2
  • condemn1
  • contendeth1
  • defend1
  • deliver1
  • judges1
  • judgest1

First verses

  1. Genesis 16:5
    And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
  2. Genesis 18:25
    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?
  3. Genesis 19:9
    And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
  4. Genesis 31:53
    The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
  5. Exodus 2:14
    And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
  6. Exodus 5:21
    And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
  7. Exodus 18:13
    And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
  8. Exodus 18:16
    When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
  9. Exodus 18:22
    And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
  10. Exodus 18:26
    And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  11. Leviticus 19:15
    Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
  12. Numbers 25:5
    And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal–peor.
  13. Numbers 35:24
    Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
  14. Deuteronomy 1:16
    And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
  15. Deuteronomy 16:18
    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.
  16. Deuteronomy 17:9
    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:
  17. Deuteronomy 17:12
    And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
  18. Deuteronomy 19:17
    Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
  19. Deuteronomy 19:18
    And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
  20. Deuteronomy 21:2
    Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
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