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Strong's #1881: dath (pronounced dawth)

of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation: a royal edict or statute:--commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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dâth

1) decree, law, edict, regulation, usage

1a) decree, edict, commission

1b) law, rule

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation



Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

Deuteronomy 33:2: "Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery"
Ezra 8:36: "And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side"
Esther 1:8: "And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed"
Esther 1:13: "toward all that knew law and judgment:"
Esther 1:15: "shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed"
Esther 1:19: "a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes,"
Esther 2:8: "So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together"
Esther 2:12: "after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women,"
Esther 3:8: "in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people;"
Esther 3:8: "people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit"
Esther 3:14: "The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published"
Esther 3:15: "being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king"
Esther 4:3: "province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great"
Esther 4:8: "Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy"
Esther 4:11: "who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom"
Esther 4:16: "the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish."
Esther 8:13: "The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published"
Esther 8:14: "and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace."
Esther 8:17: "city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came,"
Esther 9:1: "on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution,"
Esther 9:13: "to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, ten sons"
Esther 9:14: "commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's"









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