Strong's #1785: entole (pronounced en-tol-ay')
from 1781; injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription:--commandment, precept.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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entolē
1) an order, command, charge, precept, injunction
1a) that which is prescribed to one by reason of his office
2) a commandment
2a) a prescribed rule in accordance with which a thing is done
2a1) a precept relating to lineage, of the Mosaic precept concerning the priesthood
2a2) ethically used of the commandments in the Mosaic law or Jewish tradition
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G1781
Citing in TDNT: 2:545, 234
Usage:
This word is used 71 times:
Matthew 5:19: "shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men"
Matthew 15:3: "also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"
Matthew 15:6: "his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by"
Matthew 19:17: "life, keep the commandments."
Matthew 22:36: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?"
Matthew 22:38: "the first and great commandment."
Matthew 22:40: "On these two commandments hang all the law"
Mark 7:8: "For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition"
Mark 7:9: "Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own"
Mark 10:5: "hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept."
Mark 10:19: "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not"
Mark 12:28: "Which is the first commandment of all?"
Mark 12:29: "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our"
Mark 12:30: "strength: this is the first commandment."
Mark 12:31: "There is none other commandment greater than these."
Luke 1:6: "in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord"
Luke 15:29: "transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me"
Luke 18:20: "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not"
Luke 23:56: "sabbath day according to the commandment."
John 10:18: "power to take it again. This commandment have I received of"
John 11:57: "the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew"
John 12:49: "he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what"
John 12:50: "I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever"
John 13:34: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as"
John 14:15: "me, keep my commandments."
John 14:21: "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is"
John 15:10: "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;"
John 15:10: "have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his"
John 15:12: "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as"
Acts 17:15: "Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timothy"
Romans 7:8: "occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner"
Romans 7:9: "once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and"
Romans 7:10: "And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found"
Romans 7:11: "occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by"
Romans 7:12: "is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and"
Romans 7:13: "that sin by the commandment might become exceeding"
Romans 13:9: "and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying,"
1 Corinthians 7:19: "nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God."
1 Corinthians 14:37: "I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord."
Ephesians 2:15: "enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make"
Ephesians 6:2: "which is the first commandment with promise;"
Colossians 4:10: "(touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you,"
1 Timothy 6:14: "That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing"
Titus 1:14: "to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."
Hebrews 7:5: "the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according"
Hebrews 7:16: "after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless"
Hebrews 7:18: "there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness"
Hebrews 9:19: "Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according"
2 Peter 2:21: "from the holy commandment delivered unto them."
2 Peter 3:2: "prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the"
