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entolē G1785

ἐντολή (entolē) means “commandment” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἐντολή Greek · G1785 66 tagged occurrences in 59 verses

Pronunciation guide: en-tol-ay' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G1785

ἐντολή · entolē · commandment

ἐντολή, -ῆς, ἡ (ἐντέλλω, which see), [in LXX chiefly for מִצְוָה; in pl. frequently in Pss for פִּקּוּד ;] 1. generally, a charge, injunction, order, command: Luk.15:29, Jhn.10:18 11:57 12:49-50 14:31, Act.17:15, Col.4:10; ἐ. σαρκίνη, Heb.7:16, 18 2. Esp. of religious precepts and commandments; (a) of God's commandments: in OT, Mat.15:3 22:36, 38 22:40 Mk 7:8-9; Mrk.10:5, 19 12:28, 31 Eph.2:15, Heb.9:19; esp. of the decalogue, Mat.5:19 19:17, Mrk.10:19, Luk.18:20 23:56, Rom.7:8-13 13:9, Eph.6:2; of God's command­ments in general, Luk.1:6, 1Co.7:19, 1Jn.2:3-8 Jn 3:22-24 Jn 4:21 Jn 5:2-3, Rev.12:17 14:12; collectively, ἡ ἐ. (cf. τ. ἔργον τ. θεοῦ, Jhn.6:29), 1Ti.6:14, 2Pe.2:21 3:2; (b) of things commanded Christ by the Father: Jhn.12:49-50 14:31 15:10; (with) of the precepts of Christ: Jhn.13:34 14:15, 21 15:10, 12, 1Co.14:37. 3. Phrases: before ἵνα, Jhn.13:34 15:12, 1Jn.3:23 Jn 4:21, 2Jn.6; ἐντολὴν (ὰς) παραβαίνειν, Mat.15:3; ἀκυροῦν, Mat.15:6 Rec.; τηρεῖν, Mat.19:17 Jhn.15:10, al.; ποιεῖν, 1Jn.5:2; διδόναι, Jhn.11:57; λαμβάνειν, Jhn.10:18, 2Jn.4; ἔχειν, Jhn.14:21, Heb.7:5; ἐ. καὶ δικαιώματα, Luk.1:6; ἐντολαὶ ἀνθρώπων (of Jewish tradition), Tit.1:14; i. καινή, Jhn.13:34, 1Jn.2:7, 2Jn.5.† (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

an ordinance, injunction, command, law.

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How translators render G1785

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
commandment 26
commandments 21
command 4
instructions 2
a commandment 1
charge 1
commanded 1
commandment is 1
commandments is what counts 1
commands 1
has commanded 1
has commanded me 1
he commanded 1
of commandments 1
of succession 1
one 1
orders 1
to the commands 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
commandment 23
commandments 17
the commandment 12
the commandments 8
a commandment 5
the 3
of the commandment 2
precept 2
a 1
an 1
of a 1
of commandments 1
of the commandments 1

Verses containing G1785

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  1. Matthew 5:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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  2. Matthew 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

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  3. Matthew 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

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  4. Matthew 22:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

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  5. Matthew 22:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the first and greatest commandment.

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  6. Matthew 22:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

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  7. Mark 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

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  8. Mark 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

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  9. Mark 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

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  10. Mark 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

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  11. Mark 12:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

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  12. Mark 12:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

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  13. Luke 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

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  14. Luke 15:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

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  15. Luke 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

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  16. Luke 23:56 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

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  17. John 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

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  18. John 11:57 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

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  19. John 12:49 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

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  20. John 12:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

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  21. John 13:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

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  22. John 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

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  23. John 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

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  24. John 15:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

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  25. John 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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  26. Acts 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

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  27. Romans 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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  28. Romans 7:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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  29. Romans 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

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  30. Romans 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

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  31. Romans 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

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  32. Romans 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

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  33. 1 Corinthians 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

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  34. Ephesians 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

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  35. Ephesians 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

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  36. Colossians 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him.

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  37. 1 Timothy 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  38. Titus 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

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  39. Hebrews 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.

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  40. Hebrews 7:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

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  41. Hebrews 7:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

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  42. Hebrews 9:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

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  43. 2 Peter 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

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  44. 2 Peter 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

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  45. 1 John 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

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  46. 1 John 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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  47. 1 John 2:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

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  48. 1 John 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

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  49. 1 John 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

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  50. 1 John 3:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

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