Commandment
מִצְוָהStrong’s H4687mitsvah (mits-vah)
Appears in 177 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mitsvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “commandments his”, “commandments of” and “commandments my”. It appears in 177 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”
Meaning
- Commandmentcommandment (of man) · the commandment (of God) · commandment (of code of wisdom)
How it's translated
- commandments his 25
- commandments of 24
- commandments my 19
- commandments your 19
- the commandment 17
- commandment of 13
- and commandments my 7
- the commandments 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 42
- Psalms 26
- 2 Chronicles 18
- Nehemiah 14
- 1 Kings 12
- Leviticus 10
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:5In contextWe have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
- Genesis 26:5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- Exodus 15:26And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
- Exodus 16:28And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Exodus 20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
- Exodus 24:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
All 177 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִצְוָה mitsvah · commandment
1) commandment 1a) commandment (of man) 1b) the commandment (of God) 1c) commandment (of code of wisdom)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “commandment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMMANDMENT, noun
- A command; a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; charge; precept.“This is the first and great commandment” Matthew 22:38“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another” John 13:34
- By way of eminence, a precept of the decalogue, or moral law, written on tables of stone, at Mount Sinai; one of the ten commandments. Exodus 34:32
- Authority; coercive power.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.