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.
Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA
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 2 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.
- Deuteronomy 27:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 27:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 31:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:5
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Read word by word - Judges 2:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
Read word by word - Judges 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 13:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:58
· BSB · 1 occurrence
May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:61
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 13:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“I have not troubled Israel,” Elijah replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:13
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Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:37
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 18:36
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But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.’
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:19
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And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 7:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 8:13
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He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 8:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 8:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 14:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.
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- 2 Chronicles 17:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 19:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 24:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 24:21
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But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 29:15
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When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.
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