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H6680צָוָהtsa.vah

to commandPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 27
  2. 54
  3. 35
  4. 48
  5. 88
  6. 43
  7. 6
  8. 3
  9. 10
  10. 19
  11. 18
  12. 19
  13. 12
  14. 8
  15. 3
  16. 7
  17. 9
  18. 3
  19. 15
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 10
  24. 39
  25. 4
  26. 6
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 5
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. 1

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494 occurrences in 475 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. 1 Kings 9:4

    As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

    צִוִּיתִ֑יךָ (צִוִּיתִ֑י) tzi.vi.Ti. “I have commanded”

  2. 1 Kings 11:10

    And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

    וְצִוָּ֤ה (צִוָּ֤ה) tzi.Vah “he had commanded”צִוָּ֖ה tzi.Vah “he had commanded”

  3. 1 Kings 11:11

    So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

    צִוִּ֖יתִי tzi.Vi.ti “I commanded”

  4. 1 Kings 11:38

    And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will

    אֲצַוֶּךָ֒ (אֲצַוֶּ) 'a.tza.ve. “I will command”

  5. 1 Kings 13:9

    For so I was ordered by the word of the Lord, who said, You are not to take food or a drink of water, and you are not to go back the way you came.

    צִוָּ֣ה tzi.Vah “he commanded”

  6. 1 Kings 13:21

    And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

    צִוְּךָ֖ (צִוְּ) tzi.ve. “he commanded”

  7. 1 Kings 15:5

    Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

    צִוָּ֗הוּ (צִוָּ֗) tzi.Va. “he had commanded”

  8. 1 Kings 17:4

    The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

    צִוִּ֔יתִי tzi.Vi.ti “I have commanded”

  9. 1 Kings 17:9

    Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.

    צִוִּ֥יתִי tzi.Vi.ti “I have commanded”

  10. 1 Kings 22:31

    Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.

    צִוָּ֣ה tzi.Vah “he had commanded”

  11. 2 Kings 11:5

    And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house,

    וַיְצַוֵּ֣ם (יְצַוֵּ֣) y.tza.Ve “he commanded”

  12. 2 Kings 11:9

    And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.

    צִוָּה֮ tzi.Vah “he commanded”

  13. 2 Kings 11:15

    Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to those who were placed in authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword, for he said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the L

    וַיְצַו֩ (יְצַו֩) y.Tzav “he commanded”

  14. 2 Kings 14:6

    But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin w

    צִוָּ֨ה tzi.Vah “he commanded”

  15. 2 Kings 16:15

    And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offeri

    וַיְצַוֶּ֣ה (יְצַוֶּ֣ה) y.tza.vuh “he commanded”

  16. 2 Kings 16:16

    So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said

    צִוָּ֖ה tzi.Vah “he commanded”

  17. 2 Kings 17:13

    And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.

    צִוִּ֖יתִי tzi.Vi.ti “I commanded”

  18. 2 Kings 17:15

    And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do

    צִוָּ֤ה tzi.Vah “he had commanded”

  19. 2 Kings 17:27

    Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

    וַיְצַ֨ו (יְצַ֨ו) y.Tzav “he commanded”

  20. 2 Kings 17:34

    So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

    צִוָּ֤ה tzi.Vah “he commanded”

  21. 2 Kings 17:35

    And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

    וַיְצַוֵּ֣ם (יְצַוֵּ֣) y.tza.Ve “he commanded”

  22. 2 Kings 18:6

    For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

    צִוָּ֥ה tzi.Vah “he had commanded”

  23. 2 Kings 18:12

    Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.

    צִוָּ֔ה tzi.Vah “he had commanded”

  24. 2 Kings 20:1

    In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.

    צַ֣ו tzav “command”

  25. 2 Kings 21:8

    And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.

    צִוִּיתִ֔ים (צִוִּיתִ֔י) tzi.vi.Ti “I have commanded”צִוָּ֥ה tzi.Vah “he commanded”