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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.
c. of special commands of God 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Kings 13:21; 2 Chronicles 29:25; Nehemiah 13:5; Malachi 2:1, 4; Job 23:12.
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.
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - because Avraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my mitzvot, my statutes, and my laws."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his mitzvot, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Mitzrim; for I am the LORD who heals you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - The LORD said to Moshe, "How long do you refuse to keep my mitzvot and my laws?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - "Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - "'If the whole congregation of Yisra'el sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - "'When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which the LORD his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - "'If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - "If anyone sins, and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done; though he didn't know it, yet he is guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - "Therefore you shall keep my mitzvot, and do them. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - If you walk in my statutes, and keep my mitzvot, and do them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these mitzvot;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my ordinances, so that you will not do all my mitzvot, but break my covenant;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the mitzvot, which the LORD commanded Moshe for the children of Yisra'el in Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - When you shall err, and not observe all these mitzvot, which the LORD has spoken to Moshe,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his mitzvah, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - and it shall be to you for a tzitzit, that you may look on it, and remember all the mitzvot of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - that you may remember and do all my mitzvot, and be holy to your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the mitzvot and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moshe to the children of Yisra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God which I command you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - You shall keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my mitzvot always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - Now this is the mitzvah, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his mitzvot, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - You shall diligently keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this mitzvah before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them who love him and keep his mitzvot to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - You shall therefore keep the mitzvah, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - All the mitzvah which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his mitzvot, or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - You shall keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his mitzvot, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - to keep the mitzvot of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his mitzvot, always.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - Therefore shall you keep all the mitzvah which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my mitzvot which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - For if you shall diligently keep all this mitzvah which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if you shall listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your God, which I command you this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if you shall not listen to the mitzvot of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his mitzvot, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his mitzvot which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all this mitzvah which I command you this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the mitzvah, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if you shall keep all this mitzvah to do it, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - You shall say before the LORD your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your mitzvah which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your mitzvot, neither have I forgotten them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - and the LORD has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his mitzvot;

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