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Strong's numbers

מִצְוָה (H4687)

mitsvâh

mits-vaw'

from צָוָה; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law); (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

מִצְוָה 181 n.f. commandment

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

177 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Deuteronomy 7:11
    Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
  • Deuteronomy 8:1
    All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
  • Deuteronomy 8:2
    And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
  • Deuteronomy 8:6
    Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
  • Deuteronomy 8:11
    Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
  • Deuteronomy 10:13
    To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
  • Deuteronomy 11:1
    Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
  • Deuteronomy 11:8
    Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
  • Deuteronomy 11:13
    And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Deuteronomy 11:22
    For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;