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Lexicon :: Strong's H4687 - miṣvâ

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מִצְוָה
Transliteration
miṣvâ
Pronunciation
mits-vaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1887b

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְוָה mitsvâh, mits-vaw'; from H6680; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x

The KJV translates Strong's H4687 in the following manner: commandments (177x), precept (4x), commanded (2x), law (1x), ordinances (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x
The KJV translates Strong's H4687 in the following manner: commandments (177x), precept (4x), commanded (2x), law (1x), ordinances (1x).
  1. commandment

    1. commandment (of man)

    2. the commandment (of God)

    3. commandment (of code of wisdom)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְוָה mitsvâh, mits-vaw'; from H6680; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
STRONGS H4687: Abbreviations
מִצְוָה 181 noun feminine commandment; — מ׳ Proverbs 6:23 +; construct מִצְוִת Joshua 22:3 +; suffix מִצְוָֽֽֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 26:13; Psalm 119:96; מִצְוָתוֺ Numbers 15:81; plural מִצְוֺת absolute Leviticus 26:14 + (מִצְווֺת Nehemiah 9:14); construct Nehemiah 4:2 +; suffix מִצְוֺתַי Genesis 26:5 +, etc.; — not used before D and Jeremiah; in Jeremiah only of man's commands; not Ezekiel nor Minor Prophets, except Malachi; —
1. commandment, of man: king, 1 Kings 2:43; 2 Kings 18:36 = Isaiah 36:21; 2 Chronicles 8:15 + 14 times; אב מ׳ Jeremiah 35:14, 16, 18; Proverbs 6:20; אנשׁים מ׳ Isaiah 29:13; plural only Jeremiah 35:18; Proverbs 10:8; Nehemiah 10:33; המצוה, the order (title of property) Jeremiah 32:11.
2. of God:
a. following the commandment, code of law: 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezra 10:3; Psalm 19:9; especially of D שׁמר המ׳ Deuteronomy 8:1, Deuteronomy 8:2 + 5 times D; עשׂח המ׳ Deuteronomy 6:25; Deuteronomy 15:5; אשׁר צוּה (ה)מ׳) Deuteronomy 26:13; Deuteronomy 30:11; Deuteronomy 31:5; סוּר מִן המ׳ Deuteronomy 17:20; הֵפַר מ׳ Numbers 15:31 (P); || תּוֺרָה Exodus 24:12 (RD) Joshua 22:5 (D) 2 Chron 14:3; 2 Chronicles 31:21; + חֻקִּים, מִשְׁפָּטִים Deuteronomy 5:28; Deuteronomy 6:1 +.
b. plural of commands of D and later codes with 2nd person plural (ye shall, shall not; BrHex. new ed., 246 ff.), Leviticus 4:2 + 5 times P, Isaiah 48:18 + 25 times (late; especially Psalm 119 + 20 times); שׁמר מ׳ Exodus 20:6 (R) Leviticus 22:31 (H) Deuteronomy 4:2 + 10 times D, 1 Kings 14:8; 2 Kings 18:6 + 5 times; עשׂה מ׳ Leviticus 26:14 (H) + 5 times; שׁמע מ׳ Deuteronomy 11:13 + 4 times; אשׁר צוּה המ׳ Leviticus 27:34 (H); עבר מ׳ Deuteronomy 26:13; 2 Chronicles 24:20; עזב מ׳ 1 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 17:16; Ezra 9:10; הפר מ׳ Ezra 9:14; in combinations, especially by Redactors and late writers; order various:
(1) with חֻקִּים Exodus 15:26 (RD) Deuteronomy 4:40; Ezra 7:11 +; ח׳ + משׁפטים Deuteronomy 26:17; 1 Kings 8:58; Nehemiah 1:7; Nehemiah 10:30; + משׁפטים, תורות Nehemiah 9:18; + תורה Nehemiah 9:14; + עדוֺת Deuteronomy 6:17; 1 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 34:31.
(2) with חֻקּוֺת Leviticus 26:3 (H) Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 10:13 + 9 times; ח׳ + משׁפטים Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 11:1; Deuteronomy 30:16; 1 Kings 6:12 + תורה, משׁפטים Psalm 89:32, + משׁפטים, עֵדְוֺת 1 Kings 2:3; + תּוֺרוֺת Genesis 26:5 (RD); +עדוֺת 2 Kings 23:3. (3) with משׁפטים Numbers 36:13 (P) 1 Chronicles 28:7; Nehemiah 9:29; Daniel 9:5; with תורות Exodus 16:28 (R), with ערות Nehemiah 9:34.
3. commandment, singular, of code of wisdom Proverbs 19:16, || תורה Proverbs 6:23, || דבר Proverbs 13:13; plural of special commands Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 4:4; Proverbs 7:1, 2.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:5; 26:5

Exodus

15:26; 16:28; 20:6; 24:12

Leviticus

4:2; 22:31; 26:3; 26:14; 26:14; 26:15; 27:34

Numbers

15:31; 36:13

Deuteronomy

4:2; 4:40; 5:28; 6:1; 6:2; 6:17; 6:25; 8:1; 8:2; 8:11; 10:13; 11:1; 11:13; 15:5; 17:20; 26:13; 26:13; 26:13; 26:17; 30:11; 30:16; 31:5

Joshua

22:3; 22:5

1 Samuel

13:13

1 Kings

2:3; 2:43; 6:12; 8:58; 13:21; 14:8; 18:18

2 Kings

17:16; 18:6; 18:36; 23:3

1 Chronicles

28:7; 29:19

2 Chronicles

8:13; 8:15; 14:3; 24:20; 29:25; 31:21; 34:31

Ezra

7:11; 9:10; 9:14; 10:3

Nehemiah

1:7; 4:2; 9:14; 9:14; 9:18; 9:29; 9:34; 10:30; 10:33; 13:5

Job

23:12

Psalms

19:9; 89:32; 119; 119:96

Proverbs

2:1; 3:1; 4:4; 6:20; 6:23; 6:23; 7:1; 7:2; 10:8; 13:13; 19:16

Isaiah

29:13; 36:21; 48:18

Jeremiah

32:11; 35:14; 35:16; 35:18; 35:18

Daniel

9:5

Malachi

2:1; 2:4

H4687

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4687 matches the Hebrew מִצְוָה (miṣvâ),
which occurs 184 times in 177 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 26:5–Deu 26:18)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments H4687, My statutes, and My laws.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And He said, “If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments H4687, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - Then Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments H4687 and My [fn]laws?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 -

but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments H4687.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 -

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and [fn]remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets [fn]with the [fn]law and the commandment H4687 which I have written for their instruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If a person sins unintentionally in any of the [fn]things H4687 which Yahweh has commanded H4687 not to be done, and he does any one of them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 -

‘Now if the whole congregation of Israel commits error, and the matter is hidden from the sight of the assembly, and they commit any of the [fn]things H4687 which Yahweh has commanded H4687 not to be done, and they become guilty;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 -

‘When a leader sins and unintentionally does any one of all the [fn]things H4687 which Yahweh his God has commanded H4687 not to be done, and he becomes guilty,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 -

‘Now if [fn]anyone of [fn]the common people sins unintentionally in doing any of the [fn]things H4687 which Yahweh has commanded H4687 not to be done, and becomes guilty,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 -

“Now if a person sins and does any one of the things [fn]which Yahweh has commanded H4687 not to be done, but he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - “So you shall keep My commandments H4687 and do them; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments H4687 so as to do them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 -

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not do all these commandments H4687,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments H4687 and so break My covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 -

These are the commandments H4687 which Yahweh commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 -

‘But when you unintentionally fail and do not observe all these commandments H4687, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - ‘Because he has despised the word of Yahweh and has broken His commandment H4687, that person shall be completely cut off; his [fn]guilt will be on him.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - “And it shall be a tassel for you [fn]to look at and remember all the commandments H4687 of Yahweh, so as to do them and not [fn]follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - so that you may remember to do all My commandments H4687 and be holy to your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 -

These are the commandments H4687 and the judgments which Yahweh commanded to the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God which I am commanding you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - “So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments H4687 which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for all the days.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 -

but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments H4687.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - ‘Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments H4687 all the days, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - ‘But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments H4687 and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 -

“Now this is the commandment H4687, the statutes and the judgments, which Yahweh your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do it in the land where you are going over to possess it,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - so that you and your son and your grandson might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments H4687 which I am commanding you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - “You should diligently keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - “And it will be righteousness for us if we [fn]are careful to do all this commandment H4687 before Yahweh our God, just as He commanded us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - “You shall know therefore that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps [fn]His covenant and [fn]His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments H4687;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - “Therefore, you shall keep the commandment H4687 and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 -

“The entire commandment H4687 that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to give to your fathers.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments H4687 or not.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - “So you shall keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways and to [fn]fear Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 -

[fn]Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God by not keeping His commandments H4687 and His judgments and His statutes which I am commanding you today;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - and to keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 -

“You shall therefore love Yahweh your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments H4687 all your days.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 -

“You shall therefore keep every commandment H4687 which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 -

“And it will be that, if you listen obediently to my commandments H4687 which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you are careful to keep this entire commandment H4687 which I am commanding you to do, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if you listen to the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - “You shall walk after Yahweh your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments H4687, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - [fn]if you will listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, [fn]keeping all His commandments H4687 which I am commanding you today, [fn]and doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you listen obediently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment H4687 which I am commanding you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and that he may not turn aside from the commandment H4687, to the right or the left, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if you [fn]be careful to do all this commandment H4687 which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to walk in His ways all your days—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - “Then you shall say before Yahweh your God, ‘I have purged the sacred portion from my house, and I also have given it to the Levite and the sojourner, the [fn]orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments H4687 which You have commanded me; I have not trespassed against or forgotten any of Your commandments H4687.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - “You have today declared Yahweh to be your God, and [fn]that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments H4687, and His judgments, and listen to His voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - “And Yahweh has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and [fn]that you should keep all His commandments H4687;

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