KJV dictionary & concordance
An instruction, command, rule, or prescribed requirement.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Isaiah 28:10
Complete exact-word concordance
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vpon line, line vpon line, here a litle, and there a litle.
1611 marginal noteOr, hath bene.
But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
But the word of the LORD was vnto them, precept vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vpon line, line vpon line, here a litle and there a litle: that they might goe and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
¶ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
¶ Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw neere mee with their mouth, and with their lips doe honour me, but haue remoued their heart farre from me, and their feare towards mee is taught by the precept of men:
1611 marginal noteMatth.15.8. mar.7.6.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, For the hardnesse of your heart, he wrote you this precept.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
For when Moses had spoken euery precept to all the people according to the Law, he tooke the blood of Calues and of Goates, with water and scarlet wooll, and hysope, and sprinckled both the booke and all the people,
1611 marginal noteOr, purple.
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Historical English dictionary sources
[Latin proeceptum, from proecipio, to command; proe, before, and capio, to take.] 1. In a general sense, any commandment or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; but applied particularly to commands respecting moral conduct. The ten commandments are so many precepts for the regulation of our moral conduct. No arts are without their precepts. 2. In law, a command or mandate in writing.
