Definition
a primitive root; (intensively) to constitute, enjoin
Traditional renderings: appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Traditional renderings: appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders צָוָה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
493 total
- Deuteronomy 11:8מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you todayYou shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
- Deuteronomy 11:13מְצַוֶּ֥ה · am giving you todaySo if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22מְצַוֶּ֥ה · am givingFor if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
- Deuteronomy 11:27מְצַוֶּ֥ה · am giving you today…a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
- Deuteronomy 11:28מְצַוֶּ֥ה · command…but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 12:11מְצַוֶּ֣ה · command you…then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:14מְצַוֶּֽךָּ׃ · command you…you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
- Deuteronomy 12:21צִוִּיתִ֑ךָ · I have commanded youIf the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
- Deuteronomy 12:28מְצַוֶּ֑ךָּ · command youBe careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:32מְצַוֶּ֣ה · command youSee that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Deuteronomy 13:5צִוְּךָ֛ · has commanded youSuch a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 13:18מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you today…because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 15:5מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you today…if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 15:11מְצַוְּךָ֙ · am commanding youFor there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
- Deuteronomy 15:15מְצַוְּךָ֛ · am givingRemember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
- Deuteronomy 17:3צִוִּֽיתִי׃…and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—
- Deuteronomy 18:18אֲצַוֶּֽנּוּ׃ · I command himI will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- Deuteronomy 18:20צִוִּיתִיו֙ · commanded himBut if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
- Deuteronomy 19:7מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am commandingThis is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:9מְצַוְּךָ֮ · am giving you…and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 20:17צִוְּךָ֖ · has commanded youFor you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
- Deuteronomy 24:8צִוִּיתִ֖ם · as I have commanded themIn cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
- Deuteronomy 24:18מְצַוְּךָ֙ · am commandingRemember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 24:22מְצַוְּךָ֙ · am commandingRemember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 26:13צִוִּיתָ֑נִי · You have given meThen you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
- Deuteronomy 26:14צִוִּיתָֽנִי׃ · You commanded meI have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 26:16מְצַוְּךָ֧ · commands youThe LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 27:1וַיְצַ֤ו · commanded; מְצַוֶּ֥ה · am givingThen Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 27:4מְצַוֶּ֥ה · am commanding you todayAnd when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.
- Deuteronomy 27:10מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you todayYou shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
- Deuteronomy 27:11וַיְצַ֤ו · commandedOn that day Moses commanded the people:
- Deuteronomy 28:1מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you today“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 28:8יְצַ֨ו · will decreeThe LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 28:13מְצַוְּךָ֛ · am givingThe 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 28:14מְצַוֶּ֥ה · commandDo not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
- Deuteronomy 28:15מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you todayIf, 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 28:45צִוָּֽךְ׃ · He gave youAll 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 29:1צִוָּ֧ה · commandedThese are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 30:2מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you…and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
- Deuteronomy 30:8מְצַוְּךָ֖ · am giving you todayAnd you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 30:11מְצַוְּךָ֖ · giveFor this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
- Deuteronomy 30:16מְצַוְּךָ֮ · am commandingFor 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 31:5צִוִּ֖יתִי · I have commandedThe LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 31:10וַיְצַ֥ו · commanded themThen Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
- Deuteronomy 31:14וַאֲצַוֶּ֑נּוּ · so that I may commission himThen the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 31:23וַיְצַ֞ו · Then the LORD commissionedThen the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”
- Deuteronomy 31:25וַיְצַ֤ו · he gave this command to…he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:
- Deuteronomy 31:29צִוִּ֖יתִי · I have commanded youFor I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
- Deuteronomy 32:46תְּצַוֻּם֙ · you may command…he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.