shefet · judgments

What it means

shefet (שֶׁפֶט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “judgments”.

Acts by which God punishes and does justice.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The acts by which God punishes and does justice.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Numbers×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×10

• Exodus 6:6

  Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

• Exodus 7:4

  Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring out my armies, my people, the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

• Exodus 12:12

  I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both people and animals; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am YHWH.

• Numbers 33:4

  while the Egyptians were burying those whom YHWH had struck among them, every firstborn; and on their gods YHWH had executed judgments.

• 2 Chronicles 24:24

  For with a few men the force of Aram came, and YHWH gave into their hand a very great force, because they had abandoned YHWH, Elohim of their fathers. And on Joash they executed judgments.

• Proverbs 19:29

  Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the back of the senseless.

• Ezekiel 5:10

  Therefore fathers will eat sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will carry out judgments on you, and I will scatter all your remnant to every wind.

• Ezekiel 5:15

  And it will be a reproach and a taunt, a correction and a horror to the nations that are around you, when I carry out judgments on you in anger and in fury and with rebukes of fury. I, YHWH, have spoken.

• Ezekiel 11:9

  And I will bring you out from its midst, and give you into the hand of strangers, and carry out judgments on you.

• Ezekiel 14:21

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘How much more when my four evil judgments, sword, famine, ferocious animal, and pestilence, I send against Jerusalem to cut off from it human being and beast!

• Ezekiel 16:41

  And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you before the eyes of many women; and I will make you stop being a prostitute, and you will no longer give a fee.

• Ezekiel 25:11

  And on Moab I will execute judgments; and they will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 28:22

  and say: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I execute judgments in her and am shown holy in her.

• Ezekiel 28:26

  And they will dwell on it securely, and build houses and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all who despise them from around them; and they will know that I am YHWH their Elohim.’”

• Ezekiel 30:14

  And I will make Pathros desolate, and I will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments in Thebes.

• Ezekiel 30:19

  And I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I am YHWH.’”