Deuteronomy 27:19
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Word-by-Word Analysis
סָלַף
çâlaph
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...
גֵּר
gêr
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אָמֵן
ʼâmên
sure; abstract, faithfulness; adverb, truly
Key Terms in This Verse
מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...
Study H4941 →עַם ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Study H5971 →Cross References
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
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