What is the Strong's number for Mishpat?

The Strong's number for Mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט) is H4941. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Mishpat (Strong’s H4941): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Mishpat mean?

Mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט, Strong's H4941) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as 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. The King James Bible translates it as adversary, ceremony, charge, × 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, × worthy, wrong.

Mishpat (מִשְׁפָּט) is the Hebrew word numbered H4941 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated adversary, ceremony, charge, custom, desert.

מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ · Hebrew

Strong’s H4941 · mish-pawt'

Original wordמִשְׁפָּט
Transliterationmishpâṭ
Pronunciationmish-pawt'
Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
Strong’s numberH4941
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s 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

Derivation. from H8199;

How the King James Bible translates it

adversary, ceremony, charge, × 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, × worthy, wrong. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Mishpat appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mishpat (H4941) stands behind 419 English renderings in 404 verses across 31 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (65), Ezekiel (42), Isaiah (41).

How the King James Bible renders Mishpat, by count

judgment188 of 419 (45 percent)
judgments107 of 419 (26 percent)
manner36 of 419 (9 percent)
right18 of 419 (4 percent)
cause12 of 419 (3 percent)
lawful7 of 419 (2 percent)

Three places to read Mishpat

Genesis 18:19 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.
2 Chronicles 4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
Isaiah 3:14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mishpat in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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