Strong's #6680: tsavah (pronounced tsaw-vaw')
a primitive root; (intensively) to constitute, enjoin:--appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
tsâvâh
1) to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order
1a) (Piel)
1a1) to lay charge upon
1a2) to give charge to, give command to
1a3) to give charge unto
1a4) to give charge over, appoint
1a5) to give charge, command
1a6) to charge, command
1a7) to charge, commission
1a8) to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)
1b) (Pual) to be commanded
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 494 times:
Judges 21:20: " Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;"
Ruth 2:9: "and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch"
Ruth 2:15: "And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean"
Ruth 3:6: "according to all that her mother-in-law bade"
1 Samuel 2:29: "ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honorest thy sons"
1 Samuel 13:13: "of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established"
1 Samuel 13:14: "him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because"
1 Samuel 13:14: "that which the LORD commanded"
1 Samuel 17:20: "and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth"
1 Samuel 18:22: "And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly,"
1 Samuel 20:29: "in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor"
1 Samuel 21:2: "unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no"
1 Samuel 21:2: "I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such"
1 Samuel 25:30: "that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;"
2 Samuel 4:12: "And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands"
2 Samuel 5:25: "so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba"
2 Samuel 6:21: "me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over"
2 Samuel 7:7: "of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people"
2 Samuel 7:11: "And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel,"
2 Samuel 9:11: "that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant"
2 Samuel 11:19: " And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war"
2 Samuel 13:28: "Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's"
2 Samuel 13:28: "not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant."
2 Samuel 13:29: "unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose,"
2 Samuel 14:8: "Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning"
2 Samuel 14:19: "hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put"
2 Samuel 17:14: "than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good"
2 Samuel 17:23: "his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died,"
2 Samuel 18:5: "And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently"
2 Samuel 18:5: "gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom."
2 Samuel 18:12: "for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none"
2 Samuel 21:14: "all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated"
2 Samuel 24:19: "went up as the LORD commanded."
1 Kings 1:35: "for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel"
1 Kings 2:1: "of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,"
1 Kings 2:43: "of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee"
1 Kings 2:46: "So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell"
1 Kings 5:6: "Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be"
1 Kings 5:17: "And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed"
1 Kings 8:58: "and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers."
1 Kings 9:4: "to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:"
1 Kings 11:10: " And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after"
1 Kings 11:10: "not that which the LORD commanded."
1 Kings 11:11: "my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend"
1 Kings 11:38: "all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right"
1 Kings 13:9: "For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no"
1 Kings 13:21: "the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded"
1 Kings 15:5: "and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days"
1 Kings 17:4: "And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
1 Kings 17:9: "and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain"
