שְׁפוֹט
shefot · judgment, punishment
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8196 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shefot (שְׁפוֹט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “judgment, punishment”.
Judgment: a sentence or punishment someone receives. It is of the family of "judge."
How to say it
she·fot
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
- Punishment brought down on someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- judgment ×1
- judgments ×1
Where it appears
- 2 Chronicles 20:9
‘If evil comes upon us —sword, judgment, or pestilence or famine— we will stand before this house and before you, for your name is in this house, and we will cry out to you from our distress, and you will hear and save.’
- Ezekiel 23:10
They uncovered her nakedness; her sons and her daughters they took, and her they killed with the sword; and she became a name among women, for they executed judgments on her.