שֶׁ֫פֶט
judgment
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
9 verses where H8201 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Ezekiel. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 5:10 שְׁפָטִ֔ים n c mp Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
- Ezekiel 5:15 שְׁפָטִ֜ים n c mp So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
- Ezekiel 11:9 שְׁפָטִֽים n c mp I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- Ezekiel 16:41 שְׁפָטִ֔ים n c mp They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
- Ezekiel 25:11 שְׁפָטִ֑ים n c mp and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 28:22 שְׁפָטִ֖ים n c mp and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
- Ezekiel 28:26 שְׁפָטִ֗ים n c mp They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
- Ezekiel 30:14 שְׁפָטִ֖ים n c mp I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
- Ezekiel 30:19 שְׁפָטִ֖ים n c mp Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
שפט — transliterated shepheṭ — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “judgment.” More than half of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 16 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Exodus 6:6. Related forms include שפט, משפט and שפוט. See the sense tree, 16-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8201 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Judgments 14×, Judgment 2×
- American Standard Version: Judgments 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Judgments 8×, Judgment 6×, Acts of judgment 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Judgments 4×, Judgment 3×, Execute acts of judgment 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8201 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8201 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8201 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8201 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- judgment, act of judgment
Word origin
Derived from שפט (shâphaṭ) (H8199) — to judge.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁפַט
- v. פטט, s. v. פַּטָּטָא) [to divide; cmp. גזר,] to decree, decide, judge. Ruth R. to I, 1 אוי לדור שׁשָׁפְטוּ … צריכין להִשָּׁפט woe to the generation that judge (criticise) their judges, and woe to the generation whose judges need to be judged; B. Bath. 15ᵇ (ref. to Ruth l. c.) דור שׁשׁוֹפֵט וכ׳ it was a generation that judged its judges &c., v. קִיסָּם. Sot. 10ᵃ זכור לי … שׁשָׁפַטְתִּי וכ׳ remember unto me the twenty (-two) years that I judged Israel, and never did I say to them, carry a stick for me from one place to another; a. fr.—V. שׁוֹפֵט.
- to be judged, criticised. Ruth R. l. c., v. supra.
שֶׁפֶט
- , pl. שְׁפָטִים(b. h.; preced.) judgments, punishments. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 8 נעשו ש׳ בע"ז judgment was executed on the idols; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H8201 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁפָטִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 12:12 | 4 |
| שְׁפָטִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 11:9 | 3 |
| שְׁפָטִ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 25:11 | 2 |
| שְׁפָטִ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 5:10 | 2 |
| בִּ/שְׁפָטִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 7:4 | 1 |
| וּ/בִ/שְׁפָטִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 6:6 | 1 |
| שְׁפָטִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 28:26 | 1 |
| שְׁפָטִ֜ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 5:15 | 1 |
| שְׁפָטַ֣/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 14:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8201, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משפט mishpâṭ H4941 judgment
- שפוט shᵉphôwṭ H8196 judgment
- שפט shᵉphaṭ H8200 to judge
- תפתי tiphtay H8614 magistrate
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
