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# שֶׁפֶט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8201

**judgment** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

judgment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8201/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫פֶט: n.m. judgment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8201/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 6:6 judgment;—pl. שְׁפָטִים Ex 6:6 +, sf. שְׁפָטַי Ez 14:21;—acts of judgment (cf. משׁפטים), בשׁפטים גדלים by great acts of judgment Ex 6:6; 7:4 (P); c. בְּ, עשׂה שׁפטים 12:12; Nu 33:4 (P), Ez 5:10, 15; 11:9; 16:41; 25:11; 28:22, 26; 30:14, 19 (all of God); men Ez 16:41; c. את, 2 Ch 24:24 (Syrians against Joash); שׁפטים of God (four: sword, famine, wild beasts, pestilence) Ez 14:21; נכונו שׁ׳ ללצים Pr 19:29 judgments are prepared for scorners (𝔊 שְׁבָטִים rods, so PerlesAnal. 69 \[or שׁוֹטִים\], Toy).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: judgments (11); acts of judgment (4); judgment(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.29/#tree)

נָכ֣וֹנוּ לַלֵּצִ֣ים שְׁפָטִ֑ים וּ֝מַהֲלֻמ֗וֹת לְגֵ֣ו כְּסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.are.prepared for (the) mockers judgments and beatings for.\[the\] back of.fools

*JPS 1917:* Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

[Ezekiel 25:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.25.11/#tree)

וּבְמוֹאָ֖ב אֶעֱשֶׂ֣ה שְׁפָטִ֑ים וְיָדְע֖וּ כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and on Moab I.will.bring.about judgments and they.will.know (dm).that I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8201.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8201/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).