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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 2 / 4 (Deu 27:1–2Ch 29:15)

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Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the entire commandment H4687 which I am commanding you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - “You shall therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and do His commandments H4687 and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”

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“Now it will be, if you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, being careful to do all His commandments H4687 which I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - “Yahweh will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God and walk in His ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - “And Yahweh will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God, which I am commanding you today, to keep and to do,

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“But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep and to do all His commandments H4687 and His statutes with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

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“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes which He commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - “And you shall return and listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you shall do all His commandments H4687 which I am commanding you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [fn]when you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:11

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“For this commandment H4687 which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:16 - in that I am commanding you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:5 - “And Yahweh will give them over before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments H4687 which I have commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - “You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the responsibility of the commandment H4687 of Yahweh your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:5 - “Only keep yourselves very carefully to do the commandment H4687 and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments H4687 and cling to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges either, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments H4687 of Yahweh; they did not do as their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - And they were for [fn]testing Israel, to know if they would [fn]obey the commandments H4687 of Yahweh, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment H4687 of Yahweh your God, which He commanded you, for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom [fn]over Israel forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “And you shall keep the responsibility given by Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments H4687, His judgments, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may be prosperous in all that you do and wherever you turn,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the command H4687 which I have commanded you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - “Now if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments H4687, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:12 - “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and do My judgments and keep all My commandments H4687 by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you which I spoke to David your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:58

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - “Let your heart therefore be [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments H4687, as at this day.”

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“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments H4687 and My statutes which I have given before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - ‘Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him [fn]ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My commandments H4687 and My statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - ‘Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight to keep My statutes and My commandments H4687, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - and he called out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have rebelled against the [fn]word of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment H4687 which Yahweh your God commanded you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:8 - and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments H4687 and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - And he said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments H4687 of Yahweh and you have followed the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments H4687, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - And they forsook all the commandments H4687 of Yahweh their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an [fn]Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

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Also Judah did not keep the commandments H4687 of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes [fn]which Israel had made.

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To this day they are acting according to the earlier customs: they are not fearing Yahweh; they are not acting according to their statutes or their judgments or the law, or the commandment H4687 which Yahweh commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:37 - “And the statutes and the judgments and the law and the commandment H4687 which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:6 - So he clung to Yahweh; he did not turn away from following Him, but kept His commandments H4687, which Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment H4687 was, “Do not answer him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments H4687 and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people [fn]entered into the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - ‘And I will establish his kingdom forever if he will be strong to do My commandments H4687 and My judgments, as [fn]is done now.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:8 - “So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek after all the commandments H4687 of Yahweh your God so that you may possess the good land and cause your sons after you to inherit it forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:19 - and give to my son Solomon a whole heart to keep Your commandments H4687, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the [fn]temple, for which I have made preparation.”

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“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments H4687 which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - and did so according to the daily rule, offering them up according to the commandment H4687 of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths.

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And according to the judgment of his father David, he caused the divisions of the priests to stand for their service, and the Levites for their responsibilities to praise and minister before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded H4687.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not turn away from the commandment H4687 of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:4 - and said for Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment H4687.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father, walked in His commandments H4687, and did not act as Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:10 - “Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment H4687, statutes and judgments, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before Yahweh and wrath may not come on you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not be guilty.

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Now the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you trespass against the commandments H4687 of Yahweh and do not succeed? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, He has also forsaken you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - So they conspired against him and at the command H4687 of the king they stoned him [fn]to death in the court of the house of Yahweh.

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And they gathered their brothers, set themselves apart as holy, and went in to cleanse the house of Yahweh, according to the commandment H4687 of the king by the words of Yahweh.


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