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commandment

Meaning of “commandment”

Sense 1: An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed. Sense 2: One of the ten commandments.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
177 occurrences167 verses40 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 45:21

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Numbers 15:31
Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 15:31 · retained source text

Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandement, that soule shall vtterly be cut off: his iniquitie shall be vpon him.

Numbers 24:13
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 24:13 · retained source text

If Balak would give mee his house full of siluer and gold, I cannot goe beyond the commandement of the LORD, to doe either good or bad of mine owne mind? But what the LORD saith, that will I speake.

Numbers 27:14
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 27:14 · retained source text

For ye rebelled against my Commandement (in the desart of Zin, in the strife of the Congregation) to sanctifie me at the water, before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin.

1611 marginal noteChap. 20.24.

1611 marginal noteExod. 17.7.

Numbers 33:2
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 33:2 · retained source text

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their iourneyes, by the commandement of the LORD: and these are their iourneyes according to their goings out.

Numbers 33:38
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 33:38 · retained source text

And Aaron the Priest went vp into mount Hor, at the commandement of the LORD, and died there in the fourtieth yeere, after the children of Israel were come out of the lande of Egypt, in the first day of the fift moneth.

1611 marginal noteChap. 20.25. deut. 32.50.

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A command, mandate, authoritative order or injunction, charge, or precept; especially, one of the ten commandments.

volume 1, leaf 430, column 2 (entry starts at OCR line 119)