Jeremiah 23:5:13Jer.23.5.W13TAB
מִשְׁפָּ֥ט
mishpat
“judgment or justice”
- Transliteration
- mish-PAT
- Extended
- mihsh-PAHT
- IPA
- /miʃˈpɔːt/
Meaning by language
- English
- judgment or justice
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Shin | shin with right dot; sin with left dot | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Tet | t — emphatic |
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The word
Word in context
- word
mish-PAT
- phraseyour reading level
mish-PAT u-tse-da-KA
- clause
u-ma-LAKH ME-lekh ve-his-KIL ve-a-SA mish-PAT u-tse-da-KA ba-A-rets
- sentence
hi-NE ya-MIM ba-IM ne-UM-ye-ho-VAH va-ha-ki-MO-ti le-da-VID TSE-makh tsa-DIK u-ma-LAKH ME-lekh ve-his-KIL ve-a-SA mish-PAT u-tse-da-KA ba-A-rets
Exegesis
The pairing mishpat u-tse-daqah {מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה | miš-pāṭ u-ṣə-dā-qāh} ‘justice and righteousness’ forms a typical prophetic collocation, here rendered idiomatically as “justice and righteousness.”
Root and etymology
š-p-ṭshin–pe–tet
“judgment”
In context — Jeremiah 23:5
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD , “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch , and He will reign as king and act wisely, and He will do justice and righteousness in the land.”
About this coordinate
Jeremiah 23:5:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Jeremiah 23:5, so the Hebrew word מִשְׁפָּ֥ט (mishpat) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Jer.23.5.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Jer.23.5.W13.S1) and character.