43 occurrences

'Judges' in the Bible

" 'And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman's husband demands concerning him {and as the judges determine}.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each [of you] kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor."

And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, '{hear out your fellow men}, and [then] judge fairly between a man and between his brother and between {his opponent who is a resident alien}.

"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render [for] the people {righteous judgments}.

then the two men {to whom the legal dispute pertains} shall stand {before} Yahweh, {before} the priests and the judges who are [in office] in those days.

Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and [if] it turns out that the witness is a false witness [and] he testified falsely against his brother,

then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure [the distance] to the cities that [are] around the slain one.

"When a legal dispute {takes place} between men and they come near to the court, and [the judges] judge [with respect to] them, then they shall declare the righteous [to be] in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,

Then all Israel, {foreigner as well as native}, with the elders, officials, and judges stood {on either side} of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them [stood] in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh's servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel.

Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officials, and he said to them, "I am old and {well-advanced in years},

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God.

And it happened in the days [when] {the judges ruled}, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem [of] Judah went {to reside} in the countryside of Moab--he and his wife and his two sons.

When Samuel grew old he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

The name of his firstborn son [was] Joel, and the name of his second son [was] Abijah. [They were] judges in Beersheba.

{In the manner that} I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. And Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will build a house for you.

For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel {or} [during] the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.

In every [place] I have moved about, did I say one word [with] the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" '

from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue your enemies, and I declare to you [that] Yahweh will build for you a house.

Of these, [David said,] "Twenty-four thousand [are] to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials

For the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons [were appointed] to the duties outside of Israel as officials and as judges.

And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders for all Israel, the heads of the {families}.

And he appointed judges in the land and in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.

And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now [he is] with you in speaking justice.

Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and the priests and heads of the {families} of Israel as judges and to decide legal disputes for Yahweh. And they sat [in] Jerusalem.

(then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites)

"You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all of the people [in the province] Beyond the River who know the laws of your God. And you will teach those who do not know.

Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us."

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?

Indeed, he judges people by them; he gives food {in abundance}.

Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me.

And people will say, "Surely [there is] a {reward} for the righteous. Surely there is a God [who] judges in the land."

[When] their judges are thrown down [the] sides of a cliff, then they will understand that my words were pleasant.

kings of [the] earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of [the] earth,

By me rulers rule, and nobles--all judges of righteousness.

A king who judges with truthfulness [to] the poor, his throne will be established forever.

And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this {you will be called} the city of righteousness, faithful city.

There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;

But Yahweh of hosts, who judges [in] righteousness, who tests [the] {inmost being}, and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent [directions] to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all of the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king [had] set up.

Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province [were] assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king [had] set up, and [were] standing {before} the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Where now [is] your king that he may save you? [Where] in all your cities [are] your judges, of whom you said, "Give to me a king and rulers?"

Her officials in her midst [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁפט 
Shaphat 
Usage: 203

κριτής 
Krites 
Usage: 9

πραιτώριον 
Praitorion 
Usage: 8

אדרגּזר 
'adargazer (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

דּוּן דּין 
Diyn 
Usage: 24

דּין 
Diyn (Aramaic) 
Usage: 0

דּוּן דּין 
Diyn 
Usage: 20

דּין 
Diyn (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

דּיּן 
Dayan 
Usage: 2

דּיּן 
Dayan (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

טעם 
Ta`am 
Usage: 13

מד מד 
Mad 
Usage: 13

משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

פּליל 
Paliyl 
Usage: 3

פּלילה 
P@liylah 
Usage: 1

פּלילי 
P@liyliy 
Usage: 1

פּלל 
Palal 
Usage: 84

פּקד 
Paqad 
Usage: 303

שׁפוּט שׁפוט 
Sh@phowt 
Usage: 2

שׁפט 
Shephet 
Usage: 16

ἀνακρίνω 
Anakrino 
Usage: 16

βῆμα 
Bema 
Usage: 12

γνώμη 
Gnome 
judgment , mind , purpose 9 , advice , will , agree 9
Usage: 9

διακρίνω 
Diakrino 
Usage: 16

δικαιοκρισία 
Dikaiokrisia 
Usage: 1

δικαίωμα 
Dikaioma 
Usage: 10

δικαστής 
Dikastes 
Usage: 2

δίκη 
Dike 
Usage: 4

κρίμα 
Krima 
Usage: 23

κρίνω 
Krino 
judge , determine , condemn , go to law , call in question , esteem ,
Usage: 84

κρίσις 
Krisis 
Usage: 21

κριτήριον 
Kriterion 
Usage: 3