שֶׁפֶט
shepheṭ · H8201 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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judgement, punishment
Difficult circumstances regarded as a direct punishment from God
ExamplesProverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
Ezekiel 5:10 ‘Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.
Ezekiel 5:15 ‘So it will be a disgrace, an object of abuse, a warning, and an object of horror to the nations that surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging reprimands. I, the LORD, have spoken.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 2
- אַרְבַּעfour 1
- רַעevil, bad 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 4 groups
- דֶּבֶרpestilence 1
- חַיalive, living 1
- חֶרֶבsword 1
- רָעָבfamine, hunger 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כּוּןto establish, to prepare 1
What is done to itIt is the object
13 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 12
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- κρίμα kríma · G2917 · to decide a legal question, to act as a judge, making a legal decision
- Greek κρίμα denotes the act or outcome of judging/deciding (including adverse judgment as sentence/condemnation), directly rendering Hebrew שֶׁפֶט's core sense of judicial decision or verdict.
- ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis · G1557 · to give someone justice, to pay back, to revenge
- Greek ἐκδίκησις emphasizes the enacted execution or vindication aspect of judgment (divine retribution carried out), while Hebrew שֶׁפֶט denotes judgment more broadly as legal decision or the act of judging itself.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Chastise002003002005
- This noun denotes a punitive judgment, as in Exodus 12:12's declaration that the LORD would execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt on the night of the Passover.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8201. shephet [שֶׁ֫פֶט] noun masculineExo 6:6 judgement; — plural שְׁפָטִים Exo 6:6 +,…
[שֶׁ֫פֶט] noun masculineExo 6:6 judgement; — plural שְׁפָטִים Exo 6:6 +, suffix שְׁפָטַי Eze 14:21; — acts of judgment (compare משׁפטים), גדלים בשׁפטים by great acts of judgment Exo 6:6; Exo 7:4 (P); with שׁפטים עשׂה בְּ, Exo 12:12; Num 33:4 (P), Eze 5:10, Eze 5:15; Eze 11:9; Eze 16:41; Eze 25:11; Eze 28:22, Eze 28:26; Eze 30:14, Eze 30:19 (all of God); men Eze 16:41; with את, 2Ch 24:24 (Syrians against Joash); שׁפטים of God (four: sword, famine, wild beasts, pestilence) Eze 14:21; שׁ ׳נכונו ללצים Pro 19:29 judgments are prepared for scorners (שְׁבָטִים ᵐ5 rods, so PerlesAnal. 69 [or שׁוֺטִים], Toy).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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