TBESH · H4687
מִצְוָה · mits.vah · commandment
1) commandment 1a) commandment (of man) 1b) the commandment (of God) 1c) commandment (of code of wisdom)
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mits.vah H4687
מִצְוָה (mits.vah) means “commandment” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מִצְוָה Hebrew · H4687 181 tagged occurrences in 177 verses
Pronunciation guide: mits-vaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H6680 (צָוָה); a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV glosses: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
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How translators render H4687
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the commandments | 31 |
| his commandments | 21 |
| my commandments | 20 |
| your commandments | 18 |
| commandments | 15 |
| and commandments | 10 |
| the command | 8 |
| commandment | 5 |
| according to the command | 4 |
| from your commandments | 3 |
| and the commandments | 2 |
| are the commandments | 2 |
| at the command | 2 |
| command | 2 |
| had commanded | 2 |
| in your commandments | 2 |
| of your commandments | 2 |
| the commandment | 2 |
| a command | 1 |
| a commandment | 1 |
| according to the commandment | 1 |
| and by order | 1 |
| and his commandments | 1 |
| as prescribed | 1 |
| but your commandment | 1 |
| but your commandments | 1 |
| by his commandments | 1 |
| copy with its terms | 1 |
| decree | 1 |
| for your commandments | 1 |
| from the command | 1 |
| from the commandment | 1 |
| given you | 1 |
| had been the command | 1 |
| had prescribed | 1 |
| his command | 1 |
| his commandment | 1 |
| in his commandments | 1 |
| in the commandments | 1 |
| my commands | 1 |
| prescribed | 1 |
| rules | 1 |
| the obligation | 1 |
| there was a command | 1 |
| this commandment | 1 |
| to his commands | 1 |
| to my commandments | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| his commandments | 18 |
| my commandments | 17 |
| the commandments | 15 |
| the commandment | 11 |
| thy commandments | 11 |
| according to the commandment | 7 |
| commandment | 7 |
| all the commandments | 6 |
| all his commandments | 5 |
| all these commandments | 5 |
| and his commandments | 5 |
| all my commandments | 4 |
| of the commandments | 4 |
| and my commandments | 3 |
| and the commandment | 3 |
| and commandment | 2 |
| and commandments | 2 |
| at the commandment | 2 |
| commandments | 2 |
| from the commandment | 2 |
| from thy commandments | 2 |
| in his commandments | 2 |
| of thy commandments | 2 |
| this commandment | 2 |
| unto the commandments | 2 |
| unto thy commandments | 2 |
| according to all thy commandments | 1 |
| against any of the commandments | 1 |
| all his precepts | 1 |
| all thy commandments | 1 |
| and according to the commandment | 1 |
| and all thy commandments | 1 |
| and in the commandments | 1 |
| by the commandments | 1 |
| by the precept | 1 |
| commanded | 1 |
| for all the commandments | 1 |
| for all thy commandments | 1 |
| for the commandment | 1 |
| for this commandment | 1 |
| for thy commandments | 1 |
| from thy precepts | 1 |
| his commandment | 1 |
| myself in thy commandments | 1 |
| not from the commandment | 1 |
| not my commandments | 1 |
| not the commandments | 1 |
| not thy commandments | 1 |
| not to thy commandments | 1 |
| not unto thy commandments | 1 |
| of the commandment | 1 |
| ordinances | 1 |
| them precepts | 1 |
| thou through thy commandments | 1 |
| thy commandment | 1 |
| to his commandments | 1 |
| to my commandments | 1 |
| to the law | 1 |
| unto all thy commandments | 1 |
| unto my commandments | 1 |
| unto thee all the commandments | 1 |
| unto them according unto all the commandments | 1 |
| which was commanded | 1 |
| ye the commandments | 1 |
Verses containing H4687
Page 1 of 4. 177 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 26:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
Read word by word - Exodus 15:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Read word by word - Exodus 16:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Read word by word - Exodus 20:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Read word by word - Exodus 24:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
Read word by word - Leviticus 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them:
Read word by word - Leviticus 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
Read word by word - Leviticus 4:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.
Read word by word - Leviticus 4:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if one of the common people sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.
Read word by word - Leviticus 5:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.
Read word by word - Leviticus 22:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
Read word by word - Leviticus 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
Read word by word - Leviticus 27:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
Read word by word - Numbers 15:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
Read word by word - Numbers 15:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Read word by word - Numbers 15:39
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
Read word by word - Numbers 15:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
Read word by word - Numbers 36:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 4:40
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 5:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 5:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 5:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 6:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 6:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 6:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 6:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:9
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Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 7:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 8:11
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Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 10:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:1
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You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:22
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For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 11:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 13:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.5
- Deuteronomy 13:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.19
- Deuteronomy 15:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 17:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 19:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
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