Strong's H8199 · Hebrew

shaphat

shaw-fat'

a primitive root; to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H8199

H8199 שָׁפַט judge , govern . . act as law-giver , judge , governor . specif. decide controversy , discriminate betw. persons, in civil, political, domestic and religious questions . execute judgment . . recipr., enter into controversy , plead . pass. be judged .= my opponent-at-law

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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