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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.
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 - “because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - And the LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - ‘Now if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which should not be done, and are guilty;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - ‘When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD his God in anything which should not be done, and is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - ‘If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - “If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:31 - “Therefore you shall keep My commandments, and perform them: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - ‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - ‘Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - “And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:40 - “and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - “You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - ‘Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - ‘But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:1 - “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:2 - “that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:25 - ‘Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - “Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:11 - “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:13 - “and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:1 - “Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:8 - “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:27 - “the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:28 - “and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - “You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:18 - “because you have listened to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - “only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - “that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:9 - “and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - “then you shall say before the LORD your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - “Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:18 - “Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,

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