H4687: מִצְוָה
mitsvâh · pronounced mits-vaw' · “commandment”
Definition
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV translates it as: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Word origin: from H6680 (צָוָה);
Extended definition
1a) commandment (of man)
1b) the commandment (of God)
1c) commandment (of code of wisdom)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4687 is translated
- his ×33
- your ×30
- my ×27
- the commandments of ×25
- commandment ×23
- the commandment of ×15
- the command of ×10
- commandments ×9
- command ×2
- was the command of ×1
- the commandment ×1
- of a commandment ×1
Bible verses with H4687 (mitsvâh)
Mitsvâh appears in 177 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- Exodus 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, 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.
- Exodus 16:28
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
- Exodus 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 which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
- Leviticus 4:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
- Leviticus 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 of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
- Leviticus 4:22
When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
- Leviticus 4:27
And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
- Leviticus 5:17
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 22:31
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 26:3
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- Leviticus 26:14
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Leviticus 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, but that ye break my covenant:
- Leviticus 27:34
These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
- Numbers 15:22
And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,
- Numbers 15:31
Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
- Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments 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:
- Numbers 15:40
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
- Numbers 36:13
These are the commandments 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.
- Deuteronomy 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 of the Lord your God which I command you.
- Deuteronomy 4:40
Thou shalt keep therefore 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 upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Deuteronomy 5:10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an 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!
- Deuteronomy 5:31
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, 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.
All 177 references
- Deuteronomy 6:1
- Deuteronomy 6:2
- Deuteronomy 6:17
- Deuteronomy 6:25
- Deuteronomy 7:9
- Deuteronomy 7:11
- Deuteronomy 8:1
- Deuteronomy 8:2
- Deuteronomy 8:6
- Deuteronomy 8:11
- Deuteronomy 10:13
- Deuteronomy 11:1
- Deuteronomy 11:8
- Deuteronomy 11:13
- Deuteronomy 11:22
- Deuteronomy 11:27
- Deuteronomy 11:28
- Deuteronomy 13:4
- Deuteronomy 13:18
- Deuteronomy 15:5
- Deuteronomy 17:20
- Deuteronomy 19:9
- Deuteronomy 26:13
- Deuteronomy 26:17
- Deuteronomy 26:18
- Deuteronomy 27:1
- Deuteronomy 27:10
- Deuteronomy 28:1
- Deuteronomy 28:9
- Deuteronomy 28:13
- Deuteronomy 28:15
- Deuteronomy 28:45
- Deuteronomy 30:8
- Deuteronomy 30:10
- Deuteronomy 30:11
- Deuteronomy 30:16
- Deuteronomy 31:5
- Joshua 22:3
- Joshua 22:5
- Judges 2:17
- Judges 3:4
- 1 Samuel 13:13
- 1 Kings 2:3
- 1 Kings 2:43
- 1 Kings 3:14
- 1 Kings 6:12
- 1 Kings 8:58
- 1 Kings 8:61
- 1 Kings 9:6
- 1 Kings 11:34
- 1 Kings 11:38
- 1 Kings 13:21
- 1 Kings 14:8
- 1 Kings 18:18
- 2 Kings 17:13
- 2 Kings 17:16
- 2 Kings 17:19
- 2 Kings 17:34
- 2 Kings 17:37
- 2 Kings 18:6
- 2 Kings 18:36
- 2 Kings 23:3
- 1 Chronicles 28:7
- 1 Chronicles 28:8
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
- 2 Chronicles 7:19
- 2 Chronicles 8:13
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
- 2 Chronicles 8:15
- 2 Chronicles 14:4
- 2 Chronicles 17:4
- 2 Chronicles 19:10
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
- 2 Chronicles 24:21
- 2 Chronicles 29:15
- 2 Chronicles 29:25
- 2 Chronicles 30:6
- 2 Chronicles 30:12
- 2 Chronicles 31:21
- 2 Chronicles 34:31
- 2 Chronicles 35:10
- 2 Chronicles 35:15
- 2 Chronicles 35:16
- Ezra 7:11
- Ezra 9:10
- Ezra 9:14
- Ezra 10:3
- Nehemiah 1:5
- Nehemiah 1:7
- Nehemiah 1:9
- Nehemiah 9:13
- Nehemiah 9:14
- Nehemiah 9:16
- Nehemiah 9:29
- Nehemiah 9:34
- Nehemiah 10:29
- Nehemiah 10:32
- Nehemiah 11:23
- Nehemiah 12:24
- Nehemiah 12:45
- Nehemiah 13:5
- Esther 3:3
- Job 23:12
- Psalms 19:8
- Psalms 78:7
- Psalms 89:31
- Psalms 112:1
- Psalms 119:6
- Psalms 119:10
- Psalms 119:19
- Psalms 119:21
- Psalms 119:32
- Psalms 119:35
- Psalms 119:47
- Psalms 119:48
- Psalms 119:60
- Psalms 119:66
- Psalms 119:73
- Psalms 119:86
- Psalms 119:96
- Psalms 119:98
- Psalms 119:115
- Psalms 119:127
- Psalms 119:131
- Psalms 119:143
- Psalms 119:151
- Psalms 119:166
- Psalms 119:172
- Psalms 119:176
- Proverbs 2:1
- Proverbs 3:1
- Proverbs 4:4
- Proverbs 6:20
- Proverbs 6:23
- Proverbs 7:1
- Proverbs 7:2
- Proverbs 10:8
- Proverbs 13:13
- Proverbs 19:16
- Ecclesiastes 8:5
- Ecclesiastes 12:13
- Isaiah 29:13
- Isaiah 36:21
- Isaiah 48:18
- Jeremiah 32:11
- Jeremiah 35:14
- Jeremiah 35:16
- Jeremiah 35:18
- Daniel 9:4
- Daniel 9:5
- Malachi 2:1
- Malachi 2:4