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Lexicon :: Strong's H4687 - miṣvâ

Aa
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.
c. of special commands of God 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Kings 13:21; 2 Chronicles 29:25; Nehemiah 13:5; Malachi 2:1, 4; Job 23:12.
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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - Because Abraam thy father hearkened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and said, If thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do things pleasing before him, and wilt hearken to his commands, and keep all his ordinances, no disease which I have brought upon the Egyptians will I bring upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God that heals thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - And the Lord said to Moses, How long are ye unwilling to hearken to my commands and my law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands of them, and on them that keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments, which I have written to give them laws.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall do some of them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - And if the whole congregation of Israel trespass ignorantly, and a thing should escape the notice of the congregation, and they should do one thing forbidden of any of the commands of the Lord, which ought not to be done, and should transgress:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - And if a ruler sin, and break one of all the commands of the Lord his God, doing the thing which ought not to be done, unwillingly, and shall sin and trespass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - And if a soul of the people of the land should sin unwillingly, in doing a thing contrary to any of the commandments of the Lord, which ought not to be done, and shall transgress,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - And the soul which shall sin, and do one thing against any of the commandments of the Lord, which it is not right to do, and has not known it, and shall have transgressed, and shall have contracted guilt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - And ye shall keep my commandments and do them.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - But if ye will not hearken to me, nor obey these my ordinances,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in mount Sina.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a whoring;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, at the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - And keep ye his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, that ye may be long-lived upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - and doing mercifully to [fn]thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - [fn]O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - but stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - And these are the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which ye enter to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Thou shalt know therefore, that the Lord thy God, he is God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - Ye shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you to-day, that ye may live and be multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God sware to give to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - Take heed to thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command thee this day:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his ordinances, all that I charge thee to-day, that it may be well with thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and shalt observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his commandments, and his judgments, always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - And ye shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command thee to-day, that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - Now if ye will indeed hearken to all the commands which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - And it shall come to pass that if ye will indeed hearken to all these commands, which I charge thee to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - the blessing, if ye hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - (LXX 13:5) Ye shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and ye shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - (LXX 13:19) if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge thee this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - And if ye shall indeed hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I charge thee this day,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart be not lifted up [fn]above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - if thou shalt hearken to do all these commands, which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually; thou shalt add for thyself yet three cities to these three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou didst command me: I did not transgress thy command, and I did not forget it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;

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