πρόσταγμα
ordinance, command
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where πρόσταγμα appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 134 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:50 πρόσταγμα And Laban and Bathuel answered and said, This matter has come forth from the Lord, we shall not be able to answer you bad or good.
- Exodus 18:16 πρόσταγμα For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.
- Leviticus 4:2 πρόσταγμα Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin unwillingly before the Lord, in any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which he ought not to do, and shall do some of them;
- Numbers 9:18 πρόσταγμα The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp. And whenever the cloud shall be drawn over the tabernacle for many days, then the children of Israel shall keep the charge of God, and they shall not remove.
- Deuteronomy 5:10 πρόσταγμα and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments.
- Joshua 8:27 πρόσταγμα Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.
- Judges 11:39 πρόσταγμα And it came to pass at the end of the two months that she returned to her father; and he performed upon her his vow which he vowed; and she knew no man:
- 1 Samuel 30:25 πρόσταγμα And it came to pass from that day forward, that it became an ordinance and a custom in Israel until this day.
- 1 Kings 3:3 πρόσταγμα And Solomon loved the Lord, so as to walk in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
- 1 Chronicles 16:17 πρόσταγμα He confirmed it to Jacob for an ordinance, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
- 2 Chronicles 7:17 πρόσταγμα And if you will walk before me as David your father did, and will do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my ordinances and my judgments;
- Ezra 7:10 πρόσταγμα For Esdras had determined in his heart to seek the law, and to do and teach the ordinances and judgments in Israel.
- Esther 2:8 πρόσταγμα And because the king's ordinance was published, many damsels were gathered to the city Susa under the hand of Gai; and Esther was brought to Gai the keeper of the women.
- Job 4:9 πρόσταγμα They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.
- Psalms 2:7 πρόσταγμα declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord said to me, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.
- Proverbs 14:27 πρόσταγμα The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes men to turn aside from the snare of death.
- Isaiah 24:5 πρόσταγμα And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 5:22 πρόσταγμα will you⌃ not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you⌃ not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
- Ezekiel 11:20 πρόσταγμα that they may walk in my commandments, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
- Daniel 2:15 πρόσταγμα Chief magistrate of the king, therefore has the preemptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.
- Amos 2:4 πρόσταγμα Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
- Zechariah 3:7 πρόσταγμα And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,
- Malachi 3:24 πρόσταγμα
About this word
About this word
πρόσταγμα (próstagma), “ordinance, command,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 134 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →