Community leader of significant civic status In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures
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In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures and associated historical regions, the shopheṭ or shofeṭ (plural shophetim or shofetim; Hebrew: שׁוֹפֵט, romanized: šōp̄ēṭ, Phoenician: 𐤔𐤐𐤈, romanized: šōfēṭ, Punic: 𐤔𐤐𐤈, romanized: šūfeṭ, the last loaned into Latin as sūfes; see also Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎔𐎉, romanized: ṯāpiṭ) was a community leader of significant civic stature, often functioning as a chief magistrate with authority roughly equivalent to Roman consular powers.[1]
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Look up shophet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures and associated historical regions, the shopheṭ or shofeṭ...
justice. While judge is a literalistic translation of the Hebrew term shophet used in the Masoretic text, the position as described is more one of unelected...
Yedidia Shofet (also spelled Shophet, and often referred to as Hakham Yedidia; November 14, 1908 – June 24, 2005) was the former Chief Rabbi of Iran and...
starting from the 11th century BC. In ancient Phoenicia, the concept of Shophet was very similar to a Roman consul. Under Persian rule (539–332 BC), Phoenician...
with authority roughly equivalent to the Roman consul, known as sufetes (shophets), who were chosen from the most powerful noble families and served short...
mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion (a "judge"; see shophet); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but...
meaning "judges" and obviously related to the Biblical Hebrew ruler-title Shophet "Judge"). Punic: 𐤔𐤐𐤈, šūfeṭ; Phoenician: PΘ /ʃufitˤ/ Punic: 𐤓𐤔 𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕...
called in Punic the Suffets (a Semitic word agnate with the Old Hebrew Shophet usually translated as Judges as in the Book of Judges). Yet the Suffet...
1844. It is a funerary inscription of a noblewoman, the daughter of a Shophet. It is 1 foot wide and 2 and 3/4 feet high. On its discovery, Ludwig Ross...
permanently influenced by the Punic era, with the maintenance of three shophets until the beginning of the 2nd century. From that century onwards, triumvirates...
of other political regimes; It combines elements of monarchic (kings or shophets), aristocratic (senate) and democratic (people's assembly) regimes. Beginning...
In 46 BC, it obtained the status of a free city, but maintained three shophets in its local institutions until the beginning of the 2nd century, perhaps...
"Judge River," is unclear. The first word, ṯpṭ, is a cognate of Hebrew shophet and Akkadian šāpaṭu(m), whose meaning can be more accurately translated...
service at the door of the tent of meeting." 1 Samuel 2:22 reports that the Shophet Eli's sons "lay with the women who did service at the door of the tent...
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