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:
Esther 2:10: "nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show"
Esther 2:20: "nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment"
Esther 3:2: "for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor"
Esther 3:12: "and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants,"
Esther 4:5: "chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know"
Esther 4:8: "it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king,"
Esther 4:10: "Again Esther spoke unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;"
Esther 4:17: "according to all that Esther had commanded him."
Esther 8:9: "according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants,"
Job 36:32: "clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh between."
Job 37:12: "by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world"
Job 38:12: " Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;"
Psalms 7:6: "and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded."
Psalms 33:9: "spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."
Psalms 42:8: "Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer"
Psalms 44:4: "Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob."
Psalms 68:28: "Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought"
Psalms 71:3: "habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock"
Psalms 78:5: "a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:"
Psalms 78:23: " Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,"
Psalms 91:11: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."
Psalms 105:8: "his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations."
Psalms 111:9: "He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant forever: holy and reverend"
Psalms 119:4: "Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently."
Psalms 119:138: "Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful."
Psalms 133:3: "of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life"
Psalms 148:5: "of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created."
Isaiah 5:6: "but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain"
Isaiah 10:6: "and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey,"
Isaiah 13:3: "I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice"
Isaiah 23:11: "he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strongholds"
Isaiah 34:16: "none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit"
Isaiah 38:1: "unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou"
Isaiah 45:11: "and concerning the work of my hands command"
Isaiah 45:12: "the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."
Isaiah 48:5: "Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded"
Isaiah 55:4: "him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people."
Jeremiah 1:7: "that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak."
Jeremiah 1:17: "all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces,"
Jeremiah 7:22: "unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land"
Jeremiah 7:23: "But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice,"
Jeremiah 7:23: "and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well"
Jeremiah 7:31: "and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into"
Jeremiah 11:4: "Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land"
Jeremiah 11:4: "saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be"
Jeremiah 11:8: "of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not."
Jeremiah 13:5: "it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded"
Jeremiah 13:6: "the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there."
Jeremiah 14:14: "I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them: they"
Jeremiah 17:22: "ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers."
