Mishpat — Justice, Judgment
What the LORD requires: 'to do justly' (Micah 6:8). Justice as covenant obligation, especially toward the powerless.
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 translations: [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.
Mishpat in the Bible — example verses
“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 18:19 (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 18:25 (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.”Genesis 40:13 (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 15:25 (KJV)
“Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.”Exodus 21:1 (KJV)
“And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.”Exodus 21:9 (KJV)
“Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.”Exodus 21:31 (KJV)
“Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.”Exodus 23:6 (KJV)
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