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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.
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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, H4687 my statutes, and my laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, H4687 and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments H4687 and my laws?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. H4687
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments H4687 which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments H4687 of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments H4687 of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments H4687 of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments H4687 of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments H4687 of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, H4687 and do them: I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, H4687 and do them;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; H4687
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, H4687 but that ye break my covenant:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments, H4687 which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, H4687 which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, H4687 that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments H4687 of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, H4687 and be holy unto your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments H4687 and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God which I command you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, H4687 which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. H4687
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments H4687 always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, H4687 and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - Now these are the commandments, H4687 the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, H4687 which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Ye shall diligently keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments H4687 before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments H4687 to a thousand generations;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, H4687 and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - All the commandments H4687 which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, H4687 or no.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, H4687 and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - To keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, H4687 alway.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments H4687 which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments H4687 which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments H4687 which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - A blessing, if ye obey the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, H4687 and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments H4687 which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments H4687 which I command thee this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, H4687 to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - If thou shalt keep all these commandments H4687 to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments H4687 which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, H4687 neither have I forgotten them:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, H4687 and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; H4687

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