Strong's H4941 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ)

Pronunciation: mish-pawt'

Morphology: n-m

Derivation: from שָׁפַט (shâphaṭ) [H8199];

Definition: 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

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.

Senses

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

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.