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צָוָה
tsâvâh · Hebrew · Strong's H6680 · 493 occurrences
The KJV renders 23 different Hebrew and Greek words as “appoint”
What it means
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
appoint, forbid, charge, give a, give in, send with commander, ment, send a messenger, put, in order
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“appoint”
also renders hístēmi (G2476), poiéō (G4160), títhēmi (G5087), syntássō (G4929), diatíthemai (G1303), diatássō (G1299), anadeíknymi (G322), kathístēmi (G2525), tássō (G5021), bâchar (H977), dâbar (H1696), zâman (H2163), yâdaʻ (H3045), yâkach (H3198), yâçad (H3245), nâqab (H5344), nâthan (H5414), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâqad (H6485), qûwm (H6966), qârâh (H7136), shîyth (H7896)
“put”
also renders poiéō (G4160), kathairéō (G2507), epibállō (G1911), títhēmi (G5087), dídōmi (G1325), bállō (G906), bâṭach (H982), hâdâh (H1911), yânach (H3240), yâçaph (H3254), nâsag (H5381), nâthan (H5414), çâphâh (H5595), ʻâmaç (H6006), ʻâsâh (H6213), râchaq (H7368), râkab (H7392), shîyth (H7896), shᵉlach (H7972)
“charge”
“forbid”
also renders diakōlýō (G1254), kōlýō (G2967)
“give in”
also renders mâlêʼ (H4390)
“ment”
also renders epígnōsis (G1922)
Answers that weigh this word
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- Are head coverings commanded in worship?
- Is 1 Enoch inspired or canonical scripture?
- Is sickness caused by personal sin?
- Should Christians use doctors and medicine?
- Was the Sabbath given before Sinai?
Where it appears
493 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 6:49 · HVpp3ms
But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 14:16 · HVpp3ms/Sp3ms
David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
1 Chronicles 15:15 · HVpp3ms
The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
1 Chronicles 16:15 · HVpp3ms
Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
1 Chronicles 16:40 · HVpp3ms
to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
1 Chronicles 17:6 · HVpp1cs
In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
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