מִצְוָה
mits.vah
1. commandment
a. commandment (of man)
b. the commandment (of God)
c. commandment (of code of wisdom)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 177 verses
- Deuteronomy 27:1 הַמִּצְוָ֔ה
Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 27:10 מִצְוֺתָו֙
You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
- Deuteronomy 28:1 מִצְוֺתָ֔יו
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:9 מִצְוֺת֙
The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:13 מִצְוֺ֣ת׀
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 28:15 מִצְוֺתָ֣יו
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:45 מִצְוֺתָ֥יו
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
- Deuteronomy 30:8 מִצְוֺתָ֔יו
And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 30:10 מִצְוֺתָיו֙
if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 30:11 הַמִּצְוָ֣ה
For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 מִצְוֺתָ֥יו
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 31:5 הַמִּצְוָ֔ה
The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
- Joshua 22:3 מִצְוַ֖ת
All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
- Joshua 22:5 הַמִּצְוָ֣המִצְוֺתָ֖יו
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
- Judges 2:17 מִצְוֺת־
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
- Judges 3:4 מִצְוֺ֣ת
These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
- 1 Samuel 13:13 מִצְוַ֞ת
“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
- 1 Kings 2:3 מִצְוֺתָיו֙
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
- 1 Kings 2:43 הַמִּצְוָ֖ה
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
- 1 Kings 3:14 וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
- 1 Kings 6:12 מִצְוֺתַ֖י
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
- 1 Kings 8:58 מִצְוֺתָ֤יו
May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
- 1 Kings 8:61 מִצְוֺתָ֖יו
So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
- 1 Kings 9:6 מִצְוֺתַ֣י
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
- 1 Kings 11:34 מִצְוֺתַ֥י
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
- 1 Kings 11:38 וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י
If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
- 1 Kings 13:21 הַמִּצְוָ֔ה
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
- 1 Kings 14:8 מִצְוֺתַ֜י
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
- 1 Kings 18:18 מִצְוֺ֣ת
“I have not troubled Israel,” Elijah replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.
- 2 Kings 17:13 מִצְוֺתַ֣י
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
- 2 Kings 17:16 מִצְוֺת֙
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 17:19 מִצְוֺ֖ת
and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
- 2 Kings 17:34 וְכַמִּצְוָ֗ה
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:37 וְהַמִּצְוָה֙
And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
- 2 Kings 18:6 מִצְוֺתָ֔יו
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
- 2 Kings 18:36 מִצְוַ֨ת
But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
- 2 Kings 23:3 מִצְוֺתָ֜יו
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
- 1 Chronicles 28:7 מִצְוֺתַ֥י
I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.’
- 1 Chronicles 28:8 מִצְוֺ֖ת
So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
- 1 Chronicles 29:19 מִצְוֺתֶ֔יךָ
And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:19 וּמִצְוֺתַ֔י
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
- 2 Chronicles 8:13 כְּמִצְוַ֣ת
He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 מִצְוַ֖ת
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.
- 2 Chronicles 8:15 מִצְוַ֨ת
They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites or any matter concerning the treasuries.
- 2 Chronicles 14:4 וְהַמִּצְוָֽה׃
He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.
- 2 Chronicles 17:4 וּבְמִצְוֺתָ֖יו
but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 19:10 לְמִצְוָה֮
For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
- 2 Chronicles 24:20 מִצְוֺ֤ת
Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
- 2 Chronicles 24:21 בְּמִצְוַ֣ת
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 כְמִצְוַת־
When they had assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves, they went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the command of the king by the words of the LORD.