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The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (TDOT) is one of the most extensive and important works on the Old Testament ever produced. A requirement for sound scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, it remains as fundamental to Old Testament studies as its New Testament counterpart Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), does to New Testament studies. Beginning with ’ābh (’āb),...

The word mišpāṭ is a ma-noun derived from → שׁפט šāp̱aṭ. In addition to Biblical and Postbiblical Hebrew, it is found in Ugaritic and Phoenician with the meaning “government, authority.”1 The word occurs 422 times in the OT, distributed among most of the books; only Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, and Nahum do not have it. In Hebrew, ma-nouns have a wide range of use. They can refer to the place where the activity denoted by the root takes place,
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