Strong's Hebrew · H6680
H6680 tsâvâh
צָוָה
tsaw-vaw'
to command
tsâvâh appears 493 times in Scripture, including Genesis 2:16 and Genesis 3:11. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
In the King James Version
appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 493 times in Scripture
“And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,”
“And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.”
““Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?””
“And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.”
“Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.”
“When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.”
“For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.””
“So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.”
“And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.”
“came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
