Verb: to judge = shafat (שפט)
A male judge = shofet (שופט)
a female judge = shofetet (שופטת)
judges = shoftim (שופטים)
The meaning is the same as in english, but if you are asking in terms of the biblical book of judges, it also implies a leader.
Judges = shohf-TEEM or שופטים
Deborah the prophetess (Judges ch.4).
the judges help the Hebrews against their enemies and help stay faithful to Yahweh.
Samson (Judges ch.13-15).
Judges 4:4-6 the prophetess and judge, Deborah
In addition to serving as a Judge (Judges ch.4) and guiding the people, she had to wage war with a powerful Canaanite oppressor (ibid).
Judges
Every Hebrew leader who ever existed encouraged this.
moses is an important hebrew leader bacause god sent him to free the slaves (his people)
Tradition holds that Abraham (a Hebrew man) was the first leader of the Hebrews in approximatelyy 2000 BCE.
The leader of Diversity is Ashley BAnjo, one of the judges on Got to Dance
communist military leader Mathieu Kerekou from 1972-1991.
There was no "last hebrew leader". There are still many Jewish leaders in the world. The most prominent as of 2011 is Binyamin Netanyahu.