entellomai · command

What it means

entellomai (ἐντέλλομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “command”.

Give orders.

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. To say with authority what another must do, as a charge to be carried out.

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

How it is translated

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

• command ×6
• commanded ×6
• after giving instructions ×1
• gave instructions ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×2
• Luke×1
• John×3
• Acts×2
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 4:6

  and says to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will lift you up, so that you do not strike your foot against a stone.’”

• Matthew 17:9

  And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

• Matthew 19:7

  They say to him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to divorce her?”

• Matthew 28:20

  teaching them to keep all things that I have commanded you. And look, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age.”

• Mark 10:3

  But he answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”

• Mark 13:34

  It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority, to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

• Luke 4:10

  for it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,

• John 14:31

  but so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that just as the Father commanded me, so I do. Get up, let us go from here.”

• John 15:14

  You are my friends if you do what I command you.

• John 15:17

  I command you these things so that you love one another.

• Acts 1:2

  until the day on which he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen;

• Acts 13:47

  For so the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you as a light for the nations, that you may be for salvation to the end of the earth.’”

• Hebrews 9:20

  saying: This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.

• Hebrews 11:22

  By faith Joseph, when he was nearing his end, spoke about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones.