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Lexicon :: Strong's G1785 - entolē

Aa
ἐντολή
Transliteration
entolē (Key)
Pronunciation
en-tol-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:545,234

Strong’s Definitions

ἐντολή entolḗ, en-tol-ay'; from G1781; injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription:—commandment, precept.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x

The KJV translates Strong's G1785 in the following manner: commandment (69x), precept (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x
The KJV translates Strong's G1785 in the following manner: commandment (69x), precept (2x).

  1. an order, command, charge, precept, injunction

    1. that which is prescribed to one by reason of his office

  2. a commandment

    1. a prescribed rule in accordance with which a thing is done

      1. a precept relating to lineage, of the Mosaic precept concerning the priesthood

      2. ethically used of the commandments in the Mosaic law or Jewish tradition

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐντολή entolḗ, en-tol-ay'; from G1781; injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription:—commandment, precept.
STRONGS G1785:
ἐντολή, ἐντολῆς, ἡ (ἐντέλλω or ἐντέλλομαι, which see), from Pindar and Herodotus down; the Sept. often for מִצְוָה, in the Psalms the plural ἐντολαί also for פִּקְּוּדִים; an order, command, charge, precept;
1. universally, a charge, injunction: Luke 15:29; ἐντολήν λαμβάνειν παρά τίνος, John 10:18; πρός τινα, Acts 17:15; λαβεῖν ἐντολάς περί τίνος, Colossians 4:10; that which is prescribed to one by reason of his office, ἐντολήν ἔχειν followed by infinitive, Hebrews 7:5; ἐντολήν διδόναι τίνι, John 14:31 L Tr WH; with τί εἴπῃ added, of Christ, whom God commanded what to teach to men, John 12:49; ἡ ἐντολή αὐτοῦ, of God, respecting the same thing, John 12:50.
2. a commandment, i. e. a prescribed rule in accordance with which a thing is done;
a. universally, ἐντολή σαρκικῇ (σαρκίνη G L T Tr WH), a precept relating to lineage, Hebrews 7:16; of the Mosaic precept concerning the priesthood, Hebrews 7:18; of a magistrate's order or edict: ἐντολήν διδόναι, ἵνα, John 11:57.
b. ethically;
α. used of the commandments of the Mosaic law: ἡ ἐντολή τοῦ Θεοῦ, what God prescribes in the law of Moses, Matthew 15:3 (and R G in Matthew 15:6); Mark 7:8f; especially of particular precepts of this law as distinguished from ὁ νόμος (the law) their body or sum: Matthew 22:36, 38; Mark 10:5; Mark 12:28ff; Romans 7:8-13; Romans 13:9; Ephesians 6:2; Hebrews 9:19; κατά τήν ἐντολήν, according to the precept of the law, Luke 23:56; plural, Matthew 4:19); Matthew 22:40; Mark 10:19; (Luke 18:20); τηρεῖν τάς ἐντολάς, Matthew 19:17; πορεύεσθαι ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς, Luke 1:6; ὁ νόμος τῶν ἐντολῶν, the law containing the precepts, Ephesians 2:15 (see δόγμα, 2).
β. of the precepts of Jewish tradition: ἐντολαί ἀνθρώπων, Titus 1:14.
γ. universally, of the commandments of God, especially as promulgated in the Christian religion: 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:21; 1 John 5:3; ἐντολήν διδόναι, 1 John 3:23; ἐντολήν ἔχειν, ἵνα, 1 John 4:21; ἐντολήν λαβεῖν παρά τοῦ πατρός, 2 John 1:4; τήρησις ἐντολῶν Θεοῦ, 1 Corinthians 7:19; τηρεῖν τάς ἐντολάς αὐτοῦ, 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:22, 24; 1 John 5:2 (here L T Tr WH ποιῶμεν), 3; or τοῦ Θεοῦ, Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12; ποιεῖν τάς ἐντολάς αὐτοῦ, Revelation 22:14 R G; περιπατεῖν κατά τάς ἐντολάς αὐτοῦ, 2 John 1:6; of those things which God commanded to be done by Christ, John 15:10b; of the precepts of Christ relative to the orderly management of affairs in religious assemblies, 1 Corinthians 14:37 R G L Tr WH; of the moral precepts of Christ and his apostles: ἐντολήν διδόναι, ἵνα, John 13:34; ἐντολήν γράφειν, 1 John 2:7f; (2 John 1:5); τάς ἐντολάς τηρεῖν, John (John 14:15); John 15:10a; ἔχειν τάς ἐντολάς καί τηρεῖν αὐτάς, "habere in memoria et servare in vita" (Augustine), John 14:21; αὕτη ἐστιν ἡ ἐντολή ἵνα, John 15:12, cf. 1 John 3:23. ἡ ἐντολή, collectively, of the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Peter 2:21; 2 Peter 3:2 (thus ἡ ἐντολή τοῦ Θεοῦ, Polycarp, ad Phil. 5 [ET]).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:19; 15:3; 15:6; 19:17; 22:36; 22:38; 22:40
Mark
7:8; 10:5; 10:19; 12:28
Luke
1:6; 15:29; 18:20; 23:56
John
10:18; 11:57; 12:49; 12:50; 13:34; 14:15; 14:21; 14:31; 15:10; 15:10; 15:12
Acts
17:15
Romans
7:8; 7:9; 7:10; 7:11; 7:12; 7:13; 13:9
1 Corinthians
7:19; 14:37
Ephesians
2:15; 6:2
Colossians
4:10
1 Timothy
6:14
Titus
1:14
Hebrews
7:5; 7:16; 7:18; 9:19
2 Peter
2:21; 3:2
1 John
2:3; 2:7; 3:22; 3:23; 3:23; 3:23; 3:24; 4:21; 4:21; 5:2; 5:3
2 John
1:4; 1:5; 1:6
Revelation
12:17; 14:12; 22:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1785 matches the Greek ἐντολή (entolē),
which occurs 187 times in 184 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 26:5–Deu 27:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - And if the whole congregation of Israel err, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - When a ruler sinneth, and doeth unwittingly any one of all the things which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - And if any one sin, and do any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - If any one sin, and commit a trespass against Jehovah, and deal falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

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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 of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, 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 in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - All the commandment 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 Jehovah sware unto your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - And thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - when thou shalt hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:12 - And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:19 - and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

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