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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Justice" in hebraic thinking
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 00:03:53 -0500

Chris:

TsDQ &#1510;&#1491;&#1511; refers to a personal quality, which can also be
practiced by a nation or group. This is the quality of treating others
fairly, in other words, justly. It is also used in the sense of making or
causing others to be just.

$PT &#1513;&#1508;&#1496; is justice in the judicial sense. This is where a
person can be acquitted or judged as being in the wrong.

DYN &#1491;&#1497;&#1503; has the concept of bringing a lawsuit and having
that adjudicated.

(WL &#1506;&#1493;&#1500; deals with injustice, often in the judicial
theater, while XMS &#1495;&#1502;&#1505; is treating others unfairly in word
and/or deed. RV( &#1512;&#1513;&#1506; refers to the guilt from doing injust
actions, hence wicked.

This is the way I understand the terms. I hope this helps.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>

> Hello all, I would like peoples' comments please on the following:
>
> The word TSaDaK (justice) is never used in a negative way unlike in western
> thinking; by this I mean that we would say that justice is done when the
> guilty are punished. But in hebrew I can only find Justice being used to
> "Aquit the Innocent". My immediate thinking was that i was simply being
> pedantically ridiculous, but this concept of never applying the word
> "Justice" to the enacment of a sentence against the guilty does have wider
> implications - biblically speaking. When I consider the opposites to this
> word I do not find the idea of "injustice" but rather more descriptive words
> such as moral distortion, perverse and iniquity. Obvious I know, for this
> lies at the heart of injustice; as I said comments and rejections are
> appreciated. Chris.
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