תּוֹרָה (to.rah) means “instruction” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: to-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
תּוֹרָה · to.rah · instruction
1) law, direction, instruction 1a) instruction, direction (human or divine) 1a1) body of prophetic teaching 1a2) instruction in Messianic age 1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction 1a4) body of legal directives 1b) law 1b1) law of the burnt offering 1b2) of special law, codes of law 1c) custom, manner 1d) the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law
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or תֹּרָה; from H3384 (יָרָה); a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV glosses: law.
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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 law | 34 |
| of the law | 28 |
| is the law | 20 |
| law | 20 |
| your law | 19 |
| in the law | 16 |
| instruction | 7 |
| laws | 6 |
| my law | 5 |
| from your law | 4 |
| and laws | 3 |
| and your law | 3 |
| my instruction | 3 |
| a law | 2 |
| according to the law | 2 |
| but your law | 2 |
| his law | 2 |
| in my law | 2 |
| in your law | 2 |
| the instruction | 2 |
| the laws | 2 |
| the teaching | 2 |
| to the law | 2 |
| and in the law | 1 |
| and instructions | 1 |
| and my laws | 1 |
| and on his law | 1 |
| and the law | 1 |
| and your instruction | 1 |
| but instruction | 1 |
| by his law | 1 |
| for a ruling | 1 |
| guard my teachings | 1 |
| his instruction | 1 |
| his laws | 1 |
| if your law | 1 |
| in his law | 1 |
| in his laws | 1 |
| in matters of the law | 1 |
| is in the law | 1 |
| my directive | 1 |
| my instructions | 1 |
| my laws | 1 |
| my teaching | 1 |
| obey the law | 1 |
| of law | 1 |
| of my law | 1 |
| teaching | 1 |
| this law | 1 |
| this teaching | 1 |
| to my instruction | 1 |
| to the instruction | 1 |
| with my law | 1 |
| with the law | 1 |
| your custom | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the law | 50 |
| of the law | 28 |
| in the law | 19 |
| thy law | 16 |
| of this law | 11 |
| my law | 7 |
| law | 6 |
| and the law | 4 |
| in my law | 4 |
| according to all the law | 3 |
| and laws | 3 |
| this law | 3 |
| according to the law | 2 |
| and my laws | 2 |
| and thy law | 2 |
| for the law | 2 |
| from thy law | 2 |
| in his law | 2 |
| in thy law | 2 |
| not the law | 2 |
| to the law | 2 |
| unto the law | 2 |
| a law | 1 |
| after the law | 1 |
| against my law | 1 |
| and a law | 1 |
| and all the laws | 1 |
| and grant me thy law | 1 |
| and his laws | 1 |
| and in his law | 1 |
| and in the law | 1 |
| and my law | 1 |
| and without law | 1 |
| as all this law | 1 |
| at the law | 1 |
| between law | 1 |
| but the law | 1 |
| but thy law | 1 |
| for a law | 1 |
| for his law | 1 |
| for thy law | 1 |
| him out of thy law | 1 |
| his laws | 1 |
| i pray thee the law | 1 |
| in his laws | 1 |
| laws | 1 |
| my laws | 1 |
| nor to my law | 1 |
| not after thy law | 1 |
| not my law | 1 |
| not thy law | 1 |
| of my law | 1 |
| or after the law | 1 |
| out of thy law | 1 |
| the laws | 1 |
| them according to the whole law | 1 |
| them and according to all the law | 1 |
| therefore the law | 1 |
| thereof and all the laws | 1 |
| this shall be the law | 1 |
| unto his law | 1 |
| unto thy law | 1 |
| upon her all this law | 1 |
| us a law | 1 |
| ye not my law | 1 |
| ye the law | 1 |
| yea thy law | 1 |
Page 4 of 5. 213 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
Read word by wordI hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
Read word by wordAbundant peace belongs to those who love Your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Read word by wordI long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
Read word by wordListen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Read word by wordMy son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Read word by wordFor I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.
Read word by wordMy son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Read word by wordFor this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Read word by wordKeep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Read word by wordThe teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
Read word by wordThose who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
Read word by wordA discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Read word by wordWhoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
Read word by wordWhere there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
Read word by wordShe opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
Read word by wordHear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Read word by wordAnd many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Read word by wordTherefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Read word by wordBind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
Read word by wordTo the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Read word by wordThe earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Read word by wordThese are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Read word by wordHe will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
Read word by wordThe LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
Read word by wordWho gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
Read word by wordPay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
Read word by wordListen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
Read word by wordThe priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
Read word by wordHear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
Read word by wordHow can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
Read word by wordAnd the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.12
Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
Read word by wordThen some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Read word by wordAnd you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
Read word by word“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Read word by wordThey came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
Read word by wordTo this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
Read word by wordBecause you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”
Read word by wordHer gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Read word by wordDisaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
Read word by wordHer priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Read word by wordand if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.
Read word by wordThis is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.
Read word by wordThe LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Read word by wordIn any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.
Read word by wordand have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
Read word by wordAll Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
Read word by wordJust as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
Read word by wordMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
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