Word study

Verdict

5 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “verdict”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “verdict” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • דָּבָר dâbârspeech, wordtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,244 uses · Strong’s H1697Noun  ·  Translated: word 342, words 299, acts 51, Chronicles 42

    Deuteronomy 17:9 You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.

    Deuteronomy 17:10 You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,

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  • מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭjudgmenttranslated this way 1 time of its 406 uses · Strong’s H4941Noun  ·  Translated: justice 111, ordinances 73, judgments 40, judgment 40

    Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

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  • עֵצָה êtsâhcounsel, advicetranslated this way 1 time of its 88 uses · Strong’s H6098Noun  ·  Translated: counsel 33, advice 11, plans 11, plan 6

    Judges 20:7 Behold, all you Israelites, give your advice and verdict here and now.”

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  • קֶסֶם qesemdivinationtranslated this way 1 time of its 11 uses · Strong’s H7081Noun  ·  Translated: divination 4

    Proverbs 16:10 A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.

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  • שְׁאֵלָא sheêlâquestion, judicial decision, mandatetranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H7595Noun  ·  Translated: verdict 1

    Daniel 4:17 This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • φαίνω phaínōI shine, appear, seemtranslated this way 1 time of its 31 uses · Strong’s G5316Verb  ·  Translated: appeared 7, appear 3, shining 3, seen 2

    Mark 14:64 You have heard the blasphemy. What is your verdict?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death.

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  • κρίσις krísisjudging, divine judgmenttranslated this way 1 time of its 46 uses · Strong’s G2920Noun  ·  Translated: judgment 35, justice 5, judgments 2

    John 3:19 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

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  • κρίμα krímaa judgment, verdict, lawsuittranslated this way 1 time of its 27 uses · Strong’s G2917Noun  ·  Translated: judgment 15, condemnation 5

    2 Peter 2:3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

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  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.