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מִצְוָה

mitsva · commandment

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4687 · appears 181 times in the Bible

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What it means

mitsva (מִצְוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “commandment”.

An order given by one in authority; above all, those of God.

How to say it

mits·va

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. An order of God that must be kept.
  2. An order given by a person with authority, such as the king.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Commandment: an order from one in authority, human or divine; in the plural, the whole of what God commands. BDB: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law). It comes from צָוָה, “to command”.

How we translate it

“Commandments” 120 times, “commandment” 59. This edition keeps “commandment” throughout, to distinguish it from the neighboring words: חֹק, “statute”; מִשְׁפָּט, “rule” or “justice”; עֵדוּת, “testimony”; תּוֹרָה, “instruction”.

How it is translated

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

  • commandments ×120
  • commandment ×59
  • terms ×1
  • what was commanded ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 26:5

    because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my instructions.”

  • Exodus 15:26

    He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your Elohim, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not put on you any of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians; for I am YHWH, your healer.”

  • Exodus 16:28

    YHWH said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?

  • Exodus 20:6

    but showing loyal love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.

  • Exodus 24:12

    YHWH said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the instruction and the commandment that I have written to teach them.”

  • Leviticus 4:2

    “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: When a person sins inadvertently against any of the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and does any one of them,

  • Leviticus 4:13

    And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

  • Leviticus 4:22

    When a chief sins and does inadvertently any one of all the commandments of YHWH his Elohim concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

  • Leviticus 4:27

    And if any one person of the people of the land sins inadvertently by doing any one of the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and becomes guilty,

  • Leviticus 5:17

    And if a person sins and does any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, though he did not know it, he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.

  • Leviticus 22:31

    So you shall keep my commandments and do them. I am YHWH.

  • Leviticus 26:3

    If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them,

  • Leviticus 26:14

    But if you do not listen to me and do not do all these commandments,

  • Leviticus 26:15

    and if you reject my statutes, and if your soul loathes my rules, so that you do not do all my commandments, and you break my covenant,

  • Leviticus 27:34

    These are the commandments that YHWH commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.

  • Numbers 15:22

    And when you err and do not do all these commandments that YHWH spoke to Moses,

  • Numbers 15:31

    Because he has despised the word of YHWH and broken his commandment, that person shall certainly be cut off; their iniquity is on them.

  • Numbers 15:39

    And it shall be a fringe for you, and you shall see it and remember all the commandments of YHWH and do them, and you shall not go exploring after your heart and after your eyes, after which you prostitute yourselves,

  • Numbers 15:40

    so that you will remember and do all my commandments and be holy to your Elohim.

  • Numbers 36:13

    These are the commandments and the rules that YHWH commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

  • Deuteronomy 4:2

    You shall not add to the word that I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so as to keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim that I am commanding you.

  • Deuteronomy 4:40

    Keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you all the days.

  • Deuteronomy 5:10

    but showing loyal love to thousands, to those who love me and keep my commandments.

  • Deuteronomy 5:29

    If only they had this heart of theirs to fear me and to keep all my commandments all the days, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

  • Deuteronomy 5:31

    But you, stand here with me, and I will speak to you the whole commandment, the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, so that they may carry them out in the land that I am giving them to take possession of it.”

  • Deuteronomy 6:1

    This is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that YHWH your Elohim commanded me to teach you, to carry out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it,

  • Deuteronomy 6:2

    so that you may fear YHWH your Elohim, keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you, you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be long.

  • Deuteronomy 6:17

    You shall carefully keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim, and his testimonies and his statutes that he has commanded you.

  • Deuteronomy 6:25

    And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to carry out all this commandment before YHWH our Elohim, as he has commanded us.”

  • Deuteronomy 7:9

    Know that YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim, the faithful El, who keeps the covenant and the loyal love for those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

  • Deuteronomy 7:11

    So keep the commandment, the statutes, and the rules that I am commanding you today, to carry them out.

  • Deuteronomy 8:1

    All the commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and take possession of the land that YHWH swore to your fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    Remember all the way that YHWH your Elohim has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

  • Deuteronomy 8:6

    So keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim, walking in his ways and fearing him.

  • Deuteronomy 8:11

    Guard yourself so that you do not forget YHWH your Elohim by not keeping his commandments, his rules, and his statutes that I am commanding you today;

  • Deuteronomy 10:13

    to keep the commandments of YHWH and his statutes that I am commanding you today, for your good?

  • Deuteronomy 11:1

    You shall love YHWH your Elohim and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments, all the days.

  • Deuteronomy 11:8

    So keep all the commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it,

  • Deuteronomy 11:13

    And it will be, if you truly listen to my commandments that I am commanding you today, to love YHWH your Elohim and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deuteronomy 11:22

    For if you carefully keep all this commandment that I am commanding you to do, loving YHWH your Elohim, walking in all his ways, and clinging to him,

And 141 more times.