in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person

subject to oppression and abuse

needing help, deliverance from trouble, especially as delivered by God

general reference to lowest class

to judge, contend, plead

1. (Qal)

   1. to act as judge, minister judgment

   2. to plead a cause

   3. to execute judgment, requite, vindicate

   4. to govern

   5. to contend, strive

2. (Niphal) to be at strife, quarrel

poor, afflicted, humble, wretched

1. poor, needy

2. poor and weak

3. poor, weak, afflicted, wretched

4. humble, lowly

(peh) mouth

1. mouth (of man)

2. mouth (as organ of speech)

3. mouth (of animals)

4. mouth, opening, orifice (of a well, river, etc)

5. extremity, end

(pim) a weight equal to one third of a shekel, occurs only in 1 Sa. 13:21

to open

1. (Qal) to open

2. (Niphal) to be opened, be let loose, be thrown open

3. (Piel)

   1. to free

   2. to loosen

   3. to open, open oneself

4. (Hithpael) to loose oneself

to carve, engrave

1. (Piel) to engrave

2. (Pual) to be engraved

justice, rightness, righteousness

1. what is right or just or normal, rightness, justness (of weights and measures)

2. righteousness (in government)

   1. of judges, rulers, kings

   2. of law

   3. of Davidic king, Messiah

   4. of Jerusalem as seat of just government

   5. of God's attribute

3. righteousness, justice (in case or cause)

4. rightness (in speech)

5. righteousness (as ethically right)

6. righteousness (as vindicated), justification (in controversy), deliverance, victory, prosperity

   1. of God as covenant-keeping in redemption

   2. in name of Messianic king

   3. of people enjoying salvation

   4. of Cyrus

to judge, govern, vindicate, punish

1. (Qal)

   1. to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)

      1. to rule, govern, judge

   2. to decide controversy (of God, man)

   3. to execute judgment

      1. discriminating (of man)

      2. vindicating

      3. condemning and punishing

      4. at theophanic advent for final judgment

2. (Niphal)

   1. to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together

   2. to be judged

3. (Poel) judge, opponent-at-law (participle)