# H8199 שָׁפַט

שָׁפַט (shâphaṭ), Strong’s H8199: to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or… KJV…

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*shâphaṭ* — to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or…

KJV: [phrase] avenge, [idiom] that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a)…

Occurs 203 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁפַט 185 vb. judge, govern
- Qal
- 1 act as law-giver, judge, governor
- 2 specif. decide controversy, discriminate betw. persons, in civil, political, domestic and religious questions
- 3 execute judgment
- Niph.
- 1 recipr., enter into controversy, plead
- 2 pass. be judged
- Pô‛el = my opponent-at-law

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 16:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=5) — Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had…
- [Genesis 18:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=25) — May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be…
- [Genesis 19:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=9) — They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a…
- [Genesis 31:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=53) — The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of…
- [Exodus 2:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=14) — He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was…
- [Exodus 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=21) — They said to them, “May the LORD look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of…
- [Exodus 18:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=13) — On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
- [Exodus 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=16) — When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes…
- [Exodus 18:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=22) — Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small…
- [Exodus 18:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=26) — They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged…