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law

Meaning of “law”

Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

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523 occurrences459 verses46 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 11:31

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Numbers 15:16
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 15:16 · retained source text

One law, and one maner shall be for you, and for the stranger that soiourneth with you.

Numbers 15:29
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 15:29 · retained source text

You shall haue one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is borne amongst the children of Israel, and for the stranger that soiourneth among them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. doeth.

Numbers 19:2
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 19:2 · retained source text

This is the ordinance of the Law, which the LORD hath commaunded, saying, Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and vpon which neuer came yoke.

Numbers 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 19:14 · retained source text

This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent; all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shalbe vnclean seuen dayes.

Numbers 31:21
¶ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 31:21 · retained source text

¶ And Eleazar the Priest said vnto the men of warre which went to the battell, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commaunded Moses.

Deuteronomy 1:5
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:5 · retained source text

On this side Iordane, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 4:8 · retained source text

And what nation is there so great, that hath Statutes and Iudgements so righteous, as all this Law which I set before you this day?

Deuteronomy 17:11
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 17:11 · retained source text

According to the sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee, and according to the Iudgement which they shall tell thee thou shalt doe: thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 17:18
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 17:18 · retained source text

And it shall be when he sitteth vpon the Throne of his kingdome, that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a booke, out of that which is before the Priests the Leuites.

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Galatians 3:24

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 5:14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Psalms 119:142

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Romans 7:12

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.