מִצְוָה
mits.vahcommandmentHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine181 occurrences23 books177 verses
Definition
from H6680; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
Traditional renderings: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Traditional renderings: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מִצְוָה:
- ἐντολήentolē“commandment”94%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
181 total
- Genesis 26:5מִצְוֺתַ֖י · My commandments…because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- Exodus 15:26לְמִצְוֺתָ֔יו · to His commands…saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Exodus 16:28מִצְוֺתַ֖י · My commandmentsThen the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
- Exodus 20:6מִצְוֺתָֽי׃ס · My commandments…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Exodus 24:12וְהַמִּצְוָ֔ה · and commandmentsThen the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- Leviticus 4:2מִצְוֺ֣ת · commandments“Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them:
- Leviticus 4:13מִצְוֺ֧ת · commandmentsNow if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
- Leviticus 4:22מִצְוֺת֩ · the commandmentsWhen a leader sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.
- Leviticus 4:27מִמִּצְוֺ֧ת · commandmentsAnd if one of the common people sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.
- Leviticus 5:17מִצְוֺ֣ת · commandmentsIf someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.
- Leviticus 22:31מִצְוֺתַ֔י · My commandmentsYou are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 26:3מִצְוֺתַ֣י · My commandmentsIf you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
- Leviticus 26:14הַמִּצְוֺ֖ת · commandmentsIf, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
- Leviticus 26:15מִצְוֺתַ֔י · My commandments…and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- Leviticus 27:34הַמִּצְוֺ֗ת · are the commandmentsThese are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
- Numbers 15:22הַמִּצְוֺ֖ת · commandmentsNow if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
- Numbers 15:31מִצְוָת֖וֹ · His commandmentHe shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
- Numbers 15:39מִצְוֺ֣ת · the commandmentsThese will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
- Numbers 15:40מִצְוֺתָ֑י · My commandmentsThen you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
- Numbers 36:13הַמִּצְוֺ֞ת · are the commandmentsThese are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
- Deuteronomy 4:2מִצְוֺת֙ · the commandmentsYou must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
- Deuteronomy 4:40מִצְוֺתָ֗יו · and commandmentsKeep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
- Deuteronomy 5:10מִצְוֹתוֹ׃ס · My commandments…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Deuteronomy 5:29מִצְוֺתַ֖י · My commandmentsIf only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- Deuteronomy 5:31הַמִּצְוָ֛ה · the commandmentsBut you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
- Deuteronomy 6:1הַמִּצְוָ֗ה · the commandmentsThese are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
- Deuteronomy 6:2וּמִצְוֺתָיו֮ · and commandments…so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 6:17מִצְוֺ֖ת · the commandmentsYou are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.
- Deuteronomy 6:25הַמִּצְוָ֣ה · commandmentsAnd if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
- Deuteronomy 7:9מִצְוֹתוֹ · His commandmentsKnow therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 7:11הַמִּצְוָ֜ה · the commandmentsSo keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
- Deuteronomy 8:1הַמִּצְוָ֗ה · commandmentYou must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:2מִצְוֹתוֹ · His commandmentsRemember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 8:6מִצְוֺ֖ת · the commandmentsTherefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
- Deuteronomy 8:11מִצְוֺתָיו֙ · His commandmentsBe careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
- Deuteronomy 10:13מִצְוֺ֤ת · the commandments…and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
- Deuteronomy 11:1וּמִצְוֺתָ֖יו · and His commandmentsYou shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 11:8הַמִּצְוָ֔ה · commandmentYou shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
- Deuteronomy 11:13מִצְוֺתַ֔י · the commandmentsSo if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22הַמִּצְוָ֣ה · commandmentsFor if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
- Deuteronomy 11:27מִצְוֺת֙ · the commandments…a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
- Deuteronomy 11:28מִצְוֺת֙ · the commandments…but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 13:4מִצְוֺתָ֤יו · His commandmentsYou are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
- Deuteronomy 13:18מִצְוֺתָ֔יו · His commandments…because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 15:5הַמִּצְוָ֣ה · commandments…if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 17:20הַמִּצְוָ֖ה · from the commandmentThen his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
- Deuteronomy 19:9הַמִּצְוָ֨ה · commandments…and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 26:13מִצְוָתְךָ֖ · the commandments; מִמִּצְוֺתֶ֖יךָ · Your commandmentsThen you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
- Deuteronomy 26:17וּמִצְוֺתָ֛יו · and commandmentsToday you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.