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Holladay's Lexicon (based on Koehler and Baumgartner) gives (1) decision by 
arbitration, legal decision; (2) legal case; (3) legal claim; (4) conformity; 
(5) justice.  Koehler and Baumgartner's HALOT (volume 1) gives this chain: 
ruling> legal decision, judgment> case> law, right, claim> what is due to 
someone 
in a case.

Solomon Landers 

In a message dated 05/16/2004 2:13:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hholmyard AT ont.com writes:

> Dear Chris,
> 
> >At the moment I understand that MiSH'PaT is translated as Judgement, often
> >in a positive atmosphere and has different connotations than Justice.
> 
> HH: The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew gives justice as the second 
> meaning for M$P+ (mishpat).
> 
>         Yours,
>         Harold Holmyard
> 
>