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:
1 John 2:3: "him, if we keep his commandments."
1 John 2:4: "keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the"
1 John 2:7: "I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment"
1 John 2:7: "unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning."
1 John 2:7: "the beginning. The old commandment is the word which"
1 John 2:8: "Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true"
1 John 3:22: "him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing"
1 John 3:23: "this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name"
1 John 3:23: "as he gave us commandment."
1 John 3:24: "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and"
1 John 4:21: "And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth"
1 John 5:2: "and keep his commandments."
1 John 5:3: "that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are"
1 John 5:3: "commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
2 John 1:4: "truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father."
2 John 1:5: "as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had"
2 John 1:6: "we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment,"
2 John 1:6: "This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from"
Revelation 12:17: "seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the"
Revelation 14:12: "here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith"
Revelation 22:14: "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right"
