Exodus 23:2

Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data

"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:"

Word-by-Word Analysis

Thou shalt not

רָדַף

râdaph

H7291

to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)

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a

רֹב

rôb

H7230

abundance (in any respect)

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to do

רַע

raʻ

H7451

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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לֹא

lôʼ

H3808

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

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shalt thou

דָבַר

dâbar

H1696

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

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in a

רִיב

rîyb

H7379

a contest (personal or legal)

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to

נָטָה

nâṭâh

H5186

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

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אַחַר

ʼachar

H310

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

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רַב

rab

H7227

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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to

נָטָה

nâṭâh

H5186

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

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מִשְׁפָּט

mishpâṭ

H4941

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...

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Key Terms in This Verse

decline H5186

נָטָה nâṭâh

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

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wrest H5186

נָטָה nâṭâh

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

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follow H7291

רָדַף râdaph

to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)

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multitude H7230

רֹב rôb

abundance (in any respect)

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judgment H4941

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...

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cause H7379

רִיב rîyb

a contest (personal or legal)

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speak H1696

דָבַר dâbar

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

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many H7227

רַב rab

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

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evil H7451

רַע raʻ

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

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neither H3808

לֹא lôʼ

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:15 cross-reference

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Job 31:34 cross-reference

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

Deuteronomy 1:17 cross-reference

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you...

1 Kings 19:10 cross-reference

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I o...

Mark 15:15 cross-reference

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Joshua 24:15 cross-reference

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites...

Luke 23:51 cross-reference

(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 4:14 cross-reference

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Jeremiah 37:15 cross-reference

Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Leviticus 19:15 cross-reference

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Acts 25:9 cross-reference

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

Jeremiah 37:21 cross-reference

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in t...

Acts 24:27 cross-reference

But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

Genesis 6:12 cross-reference

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Jeremiah 38:9 cross-reference

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for ther...

Genesis 19:4 cross-reference

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Psalm 72:2 cross-reference

He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Deuteronomy 16:19 cross-reference

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Genesis 7:1 cross-reference

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Deuteronomy 24:17 cross-reference

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

Ezekiel 9:9 cross-reference

Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth...

Romans 1:32 cross-reference

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

1 Samuel 15:9 cross-reference

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was...

Haggai 1:4 cross-reference

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

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