Words the Bible translates as manner
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mishpatמִשְׁפָּטthe rightful exercise of authority that sets and keeps things in order: the act of judging a case, the verdict that settles it, the work of governing justly, the standing laws that flow from it, and the justice all of this is meant to embody.
- troposτρόποςthe manner in which something is done or happens, and so also the manner in which a person lives
- oraḥאֹרַחa way or path: a track that is traveled, whether a literal road or the figurative course of a person's life and conduct
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- a traveler or band of travelers: the people who walk a route, named by the road they keep
- taxisτάξιςgood order: things done in their proper arrangement and sequence rather than in confusion
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- an assigned turn of service: one's appointed place in a fixed rotation of duty
- a kind or character: the particular sort of thing something is; in Hebrews, the distinct type of priesthood Christ shares with Melchizedek
- ethosἔθοςan established practice: the way something is regularly and expectedly done, settled by long use rather than by fresh command
- divrahדִּבְרָהin a set phrase, the ground or pattern behind something: on account of, so that, after the manner of
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- a case: the matter a person lays out before someone who can settle it
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