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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 - All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - He said, "If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - So the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - "Tell the Israelites, 'When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them -

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - "'If the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter is not noticed by the assembly, and they violate one of the Lord's commandments, which must not be violated, so they become guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - "'Whenever a leader, by straying unintentionally, sins and violates one of the commandments of the LORD his God which must not be violated, and he pleads guilty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - "'If an ordinary individual sins by straying unintentionally when he violates one of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and he pleads guilty

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - "If a person sins and violates any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated (although he did not know it at the time, but later realizes he is guilty), then he will bear his punishment for iniquity

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - "You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - "'If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - "'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments -

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant -

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - "'If you sin unintentionally and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses -

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - Thus you will remember and obey all my commandments and be holy to your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments and the decisions that the LORD commanded the Israelites through the authority of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you - you, your children, and your grandchildren - all your lives, to prolong your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the LORD our God, just as he demands."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - So realize that the LORD your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Be sure you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - and to keep the Lord's commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - You must love the LORD your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the LORD your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the LORD your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - You must follow the LORD your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - Thus you must obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then you shall say before the LORD your God, "I have removed the sacred offering from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

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3. LOAD PAGE 3 2Ch 29:25–Psa 119:143

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