Decree
גְּזֵרָהStrong’s H1510gezerah (ge-ze-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gezerah is the Aramaic word usually translated “decree of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.”
Meaning
- Decree
How it's translated
- by decree of 1
- and decree of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
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Aramaic dictionary
גְּזֵרָה gezerah · decree
decree Aramaic of ga.zar (גָּזַר "to cut" H1504)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “decree” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECREE, noun
[Latin To judge; to divide.]
- Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause; as a decree of the court of chancery.
- In the civil law, a determination or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties.
- An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
- In general, an order, edict or law made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors.“There went a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed” Luke 2:1
All definitions and other forms of “decree”
- Established law, or rule.“He made a decree for the rain” Job 28:26
- In theology, predetermined purpose of God; the purpose or determination of an immutable Being, whose plan of operations is, like himself, unchangeable.
DECREE, verb transitive
- To determine judicially; to resolve by sentence; as, the court decreed that the property should be restored; or they decreed a restoration of the property.
- To determine or resolve legislatively; to fix or appoint; to set or constitute by edict or in purpose.“Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established” Job 22:28
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.