Command
טְעֵםStrong’s H2942teem (te-em)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teem is the Aramaic word usually translated “decree”, “command” and “decree of”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:”
Meaning
- Report, tastetaste · report
How it's translated
- a decree 17
- command 3
- decree of 2
- discretion 2
- decree the 1
- and according to decree of 1
- and discretion 1
- in taste of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 18
- Daniel 8
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:10In contextThou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
- Daniel 3:12In contextThere are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Daniel 3:29In contextTherefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
- Daniel 4:6In contextTherefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
- Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 6:13In contextThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Aramaic dictionary
טְעֵם teem · command
1) report, taste 1a) taste 1b) report
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “command” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMMAND, verb transitive
- To bid; to order; to direct; to charge; implying authority, and power to control, and to require obedience.“We will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us” Exodus 8:27“I know that he [Abraham] will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord” Genesis 18:19
- To govern, lead or direct; to have or to exercise supreme authority over.
- To have in power; to be able to exercise power or authority over; as, a military post commands the surrounding country; a fort commands the harbor.
- To overlook, or have in the power of the eye, without obstruction.
All definitions and other forms of “command”
- To direct; to send.“The Lord shall command the blessing on thee” Deuteronomy 28:8
- To have or to exercise a controlling influence over.
COMMAND, verb intransitive
To have or to exercise supreme authority; to possess the chief power; to govern; as, the general commands with dignity and humanity. What general commands in Canada?
COMMAND, noun
- The right or power of governing with chief or exclusive authority; supreme power; control; as, an officer has a brigade under his command; he takes command of the army in France; an appropriate military term.
- The power of controlling; governing influence; sway.
- Cogent or absolute authority.
- The act of commanding; the mandate uttered; order given.
- The power of overlooking, or surveying, without obstruction.
- The power of governing or controlling by force, or of defending and protecting.
- That which is commanded control; as a body of troop under command
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.