Commandment

Usually translated “commandment”, “commandments” and “commands”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• commandment 32
• commandments 22
• a commandment 8
• commands 1
• a command 1
• command 1
• of commandments 1
• instructions 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 John 10
• John 9
• Mark 8
• Romans 7
• Matthew 6
• Luke 4

16 books in all.

• Commandment (mitsvah)
• Command (epitagē)
• Precept (entalma)

• Titus 1:14In contextNot giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
• 2 Peter 2:21In contextFor it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• 2 Peter 3:2In contextThat ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
• 2 John 1:4In contextI rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
• 2 John 1:5In contextAnd now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
• 2 John 1:6In contextAnd this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “commandment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.