entolē · commandment

What it means

entolē (ἐντολή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “commandment”.

Order.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What God or Jesus orders to be done, with his authority, to be carried out.
2. What a human authority orders to be done.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Commandment: what someone with authority orders; in the New Testament, above all God's commandments in the law and the commandment of Jesus. It is the noun of ἐντέλλομαι (command).

• The first commandment of all Mark 12:28Matthew 22:38Mark 12:31
• “A new commandment I give you” John 13:341 John 3:23
• The commandment of God over against tradition Mark 7:8
• The commandment in the law Romans 7:12Luke 23:56
• An order from a person Luke 15:29Acts 17:15

How we translate it

“Commandment” 39 times and “commandments” 23, the form this edition sets for ἐντολή, as for מִצְוָה in Hebrew. When a person gives it and not God, “command” (Luke 15:29) or “instruction” (Acts 17:15). In John's letters the word recurs often: keeping his commandments is the sign of knowing him (1 John 2:3), and the commandment is to believe and to love one another (1 John 3:23).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• commandment ×39
• commandments ×23
• command ×1
• instruction ×1
• instructions ×1
• orders ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×6
• Luke×4
• John×10
• Acts×1
• Romans×7
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×2
• Colossians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×4
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×14
• 2 John×4
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 5:19

  So whoever breaks one of these least commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, this one will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

• Matthew 15:3

  But he answered and said to them, “Why do you also break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

• Matthew 19:17

  And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

• Matthew 22:36

  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

• Matthew 22:38

  This is the great and first commandment.

• Matthew 22:40

  On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.”

• Mark 7:8

  Having left the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

• Mark 7:9

  And he was saying to them, “How well you set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

• Mark 10:5

  But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

• Mark 10:19

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

• Mark 12:28

  And one of the scribes came up, having heard them debating, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is first of all?”

• Mark 12:31

  The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

• Luke 1:6

  And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Luke 15:29

  But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look, so many years I have been slaving for you, and I never broke your command, and to me you never gave a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends;

• Luke 18:20

  You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

• Luke 23:56

  And they returned and prepared spices and ointments. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

• John 10:18

  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

• John 11:57

  Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might seize him.

• John 12:49

  For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment what to say and what to speak.

• John 12:50

  And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

• John 13:34

  A new commandment I give you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

• John 14:15

  If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

• John 14:21

  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

• John 15:10

  If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

• John 15:12

  This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

• Acts 17:15

  And those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving an instruction for Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as soon as possible, they departed.

• Romans 7:8

  But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting; for apart from the law sin is dead.

• Romans 7:9

  And I was once alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again,

• Romans 7:10

  and I died, and the commandment that was for life, this was found for me to be for death;

• Romans 7:11

  for sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

• Romans 7:12

  So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

• Romans 7:13

  Then did what is good become death to me? By no means! But sin did, so that it might be shown to be sin, producing death in me through what is good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.

• Romans 13:9

  For: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19

  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

• Ephesians 2:15

  having abolished the law of commandments in decrees, so that he might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace,

• Ephesians 6:2

  Honor your father and your mother —which is the first commandment with a promise—

• Colossians 4:10

  Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),

• 1 Timothy 6:14

  that you keep the commandment spotless and above reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,

• Titus 1:14

  not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.

• Hebrews 7:5

  And those from among the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although these have come from the loins of Abraham.

And 26 more times.