צָוָה
to command
also: charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to fuller range ↓
H6680
Strong's Hebrew
tsâvâh
Transliteration
/tsaw-vaw'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
496
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order
- (Piel)
- to lay charge upon
- to give charge to, give command to
- to give charge unto
- to give charge over, appoint
- to give charge, command
- to charge, command
- to charge, commission
- to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)
- (Pual) to be commanded
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘lay charge’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 27 distinct
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 229 times (46%)
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 62 times (13%)
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 60 times (12%)
- Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct 28 times (6%)
- Verb, Piel, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 16 times (3%)
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 15 times (3%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 14 times (3%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 13 times (3%)
+19 more forms (59 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 496 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Genesis 26 verses
- Genesis 2:16 וַ/יְצַו֙ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 3:11 צִוִּיתִ֛י/ךָ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:17 צִוִּיתִ֨י/ךָ֙ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 6:22 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
- Genesis 7:5 צִוָּ֖/הוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
- Genesis 7:9 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:16 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.
- Genesis 12:20 וַ/יְצַ֥ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 18:19 יְצַוֶּ֜ה Piel impf 3ms For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 21:4 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- Genesis 26:11 וַ/יְצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 27:8 מְצַוָּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act fs Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
- Genesis 28:1 וַ/יְצַוֵּ֨/הוּ֙ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 28:6 וַ/יְצַ֤ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 32:4 וַ/יְצַ֤ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:17 וַ/יְצַ֥ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 32:19 וַ/יְצַ֞ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
- Genesis 42:25 וַ/יְצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Genesis 44:1 וַ/יְצַ֞ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
- Genesis 45:19 צֻוֵּ֖יתָה Pual pf 2ms Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
- Genesis 47:11 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Genesis 49:29 וַ/יְצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:33 לְ/צַוֺּ֣ת prep + Piel inf.cs When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 50:2 וַ/יְצַ֨ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Genesis 50:12 צִוָּֽ/ם Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp His sons did to him just as he commanded them,
- Genesis 50:16 וַ/יְצַוּ֕וּ צִוָּ֔ה conj + Piel wimpf 3mp Piel pf 3ms They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,
Exodus 54 verses
- Exodus 1:22 וַ/יְצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
- Exodus 4:28 צִוָּֽ/הוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him.
- Exodus 5:6 וַ/יְצַ֥ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
- Exodus 6:13 וַ/יְצַוֵּ/ם֙ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:2 אֲצַוֶּ֑/ךָּ Piel impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Exodus 7:6 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
- Exodus 7:10 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
- Exodus 7:20 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
- Exodus 12:28 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 12:50 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 16:16 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
- Exodus 16:24 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
- Exodus 16:32 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 16:34 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Exodus 18:23 וְ/צִוְּ/ךָ֣ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
- Exodus 19:7 צִוָּ֖/הוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
- Exodus 23:15 צִוִּיתִ֗/ךָ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- Exodus 25:22 אֲצַוֶּ֛ה Piel impf 1cs There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
- Exodus 27:20 תְּצַוֶּ֣ה Piel impf 2ms "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- Exodus 29:35 צִוִּ֖יתִי Piel pf 1cs "Thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Seven days shall you consecrate them.
- Exodus 31:6 צִוִּיתִֽ/ךָ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
- Exodus 31:11 צִוִּיתִ֖/ךָ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do."
- Exodus 32:8 צִוִּיתִ֔/ם Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 3mp They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
- Exodus 34:4 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
- Exodus 34:11 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֣ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 34:18 צִוִּיתִ֔/ךָ Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
- Exodus 34:32 וַ/יְצַוֵּ֕/ם conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all of the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 34:34 יְצֻוֶּֽה Pual impf 3ms But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
- Exodus 35:1 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
- Exodus 35:4 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
- Exodus 35:10 צִוָּ֖ה Piel pf 3ms "Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
- Exodus 35:29 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
- Exodus 36:1 צִוָּ֖ה Piel pf 3ms "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
- Exodus 36:5 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."
- Exodus 36:6 וַ/יְצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
- Exodus 38:22 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:1 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:5 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:7 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:21 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:26 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:29 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:31 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:32 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Thus all the work of the tent of the tent of meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
- Exodus 39:42 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
- Exodus 39:43 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
- Exodus 40:16 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
- Exodus 40:19 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:21 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:23 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:25 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:27 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:29 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:32 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 34 verses
- Leviticus 6:9 צַ֤ו Piel impv 2ms "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.
- Leviticus 7:36 צִוָּ֨ה Piel pf 3ms which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 7:38 צִוָּ֧ה צַוֺּת֜/וֹ Piel pf 3ms Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms which Yahweh commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Leviticus 8:4 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 8:5 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."
- Leviticus 8:9 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:13 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:17 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:21 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:29 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:31 צִוֵּ֨יתִי֙ Piel pf 1cs Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'
- Leviticus 8:34 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.
- Leviticus 8:35 צֻוֵּֽיתִי Pual pf 1cs At the door of the Tent of Meeting you shall stay day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."
- Leviticus 8:36 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
- Leviticus 9:5 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 9:6 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you."
- Leviticus 9:7 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."
- Leviticus 9:10 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:21 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
- Leviticus 10:1 צִוָּ֖ה Piel pf 3ms Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
- Leviticus 10:13 צֻוֵּֽיתִי Pual pf 1cs and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 10:15 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded."
- Leviticus 10:18 צִוֵּֽיתִי Piel pf 1cs Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary: you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."
- Leviticus 13:54 וְ/צִוָּה֙ conj + Piel wpf 3ms then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days.
- Leviticus 14:4 וְ/צִוָּה֙ conj + Piel wpf 3ms then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:5 וְ/צִוָּה֙ conj + Piel wpf 3ms The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
- Leviticus 14:36 וְ/צִוָּ֨ה conj + Piel wpf 3ms The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
- Leviticus 14:40 וְ/צִוָּה֙ conj + Piel wpf 3ms then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
- Leviticus 16:34 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 17:2 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
- Leviticus 24:2 צַ֞ו Piel impv 2ms "Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
- Leviticus 24:23 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 25:21 וְ/צִוִּ֤יתִי conj + Piel wpf 1cs then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
- Leviticus 27:34 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Numbers 45 verses
- Numbers 1:19 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 1:54 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.
- Numbers 2:33 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 2:34 צִוָּ֨ה Piel pf 3ms Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
- Numbers 3:16 צֻוָּֽה Pual pf 3ms Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
- Numbers 3:42 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 3:51 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 4:49 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 5:2 צַ֚ו Piel impv 2ms "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
- Numbers 8:3 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 8:20 צִוָּ֨ה Piel pf 3ms Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Numbers 8:22 צִוָּ֨ה Piel pf 3ms After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.
- Numbers 9:5 צִוָּ֤ה Piel pf 3ms They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- Numbers 9:8 יְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel impf 3ms Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you."
- Numbers 15:23 צִוָּ֧ה צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Piel pf 3ms even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
- Numbers 15:36 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 17:11 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
- Numbers 19:2 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
- Numbers 20:9 צִוָּֽ/הוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
- Numbers 20:27 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
- Numbers 26:4 צִוָּ֨ה Piel pf 3ms [Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 27:11 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 27:19 וְ/צִוִּיתָ֥ה conj + Piel wpf 2ms and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
- Numbers 27:22 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
- Numbers 27:23 וַ/יְצַוֵּ֑/הוּ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.
- Numbers 28:2 צַ֚ו Piel impv 2ms Command the children of Israel, and tell them, My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor to me, shall you observe to offer to me in their due season.
- Numbers 29:40 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 30:1 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
- Numbers 30:16 צִוָּ֤ה Piel pf 3ms These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
- Numbers 31:7 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
- Numbers 31:21 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
- Numbers 31:31 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:41 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:47 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 32:25 מְצַוֶּֽה Piel ptcp.act ms The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
- Numbers 32:28 וַ/יְצַ֤ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 34:2 צַ֞ו Piel impv 2ms Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders of it),
- Numbers 34:13 וַ/יְצַ֣ו צִוָּ֣ה conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Piel pf 3ms Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
- Numbers 34:29 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 35:2 צַו֮ Piel impv 2ms Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.
- Numbers 36:2 צִוָּ֣ה צֻוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms Pual pf 3ms and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
- Numbers 36:5 וַ/יְצַ֤ו conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
- Numbers 36:6 צִוָּ֣ה Piel pf 3ms This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.
- Numbers 36:10 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
- Numbers 36:13 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deuteronomy 86 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:3 צִוָּ֧ה Piel pf 3ms It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
- Deuteronomy 1:16 וָ/אֲצַוֶּה֙ conj + Piel wimpf 1cs I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
- Deuteronomy 1:18 וָ/אֲצַוֶּ֥ה conj + Piel wimpf 1cs I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
- Deuteronomy 1:19 צִוָּ֛ה Piel pf 3ms We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 1:41 צִוָּ֖/נוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.
- Deuteronomy 2:4 צַ֣ו Piel impv 2ms Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
- Deuteronomy 2:37 צִוָּ֖ה Piel pf 3ms only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
- Deuteronomy 3:18 וָ/אֲצַ֣ו conj + Piel wimpf 1cs I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 צִוֵּ֔יתִי Piel pf 1cs I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 3:28 וְ/צַ֥ו conj + Piel impv 2ms But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
- Deuteronomy 4:2 מְצַוֶּ֣ה מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act ms Piel ptcp.act ms You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 צִוַּ֖/נִי Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:13 צִוָּ֤ה Piel pf 3ms He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 צִוָּ֤ה Piel pf 3ms Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:23 צִוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:40 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֙ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Deuteronomy 5:12 צִוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 צִוְּ/ךָ֙ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 5:16 צִוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 5:32 צִוָּ֛ה Piel pf 3ms You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 5:33 צִוָּ֜ה Piel pf 3ms You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 צִוָּ֛ה Piel pf 3ms Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:2 מְצַוֶּ/ךָ֒ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 6:6 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֛ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
- Deuteronomy 6:17 צִוָּֽ/ךְ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 2fs You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 6:20 צִוָּ֛ה Piel pf 3ms When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you?
- Deuteronomy 6:24 וַ/יְצַוֵּ֣/נוּ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 6:25 צִוָּֽ/נוּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
- Deuteronomy 7:11 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֛ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
- Deuteronomy 8:1 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֛ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:11 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 9:12 צִוִּיתִ֔/ם Piel pf 1cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 צִוָּ֥ה Piel pf 3ms I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 10:5 צִוַּ֖/נִי Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 10:13 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
- Deuteronomy 11:8 מְצַוְּ/ךָ֖ Piel ptcp.act ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 11:13 מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act ms It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22 מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act ms For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
- Deuteronomy 11:27 מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act ms the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;
- Deuteronomy 11:28 מְצַוֶּ֥ה Piel ptcp.act ms and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 מְצַוֶּ֣ה Piel ptcp.act ms then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
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צוה (tsâvâh) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to command.” Debuting at Genesis 2:16, it then recurs through the corpus. With 475 verses in 27 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. The verb spans 2 stems, from Piel to Pual. From the same root come מצוה, צו and צי. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
appoint
Modern gloss
to command
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H6680 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 475
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 475 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #103
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 103 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 86 verses 18%
- Exodus 54 verses 11%
- Numbers 45 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 475 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 245 verses · 52%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 166 verses · 35%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 64 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Commanded 165×, Had commanded 30×, I command 30×
- American Standard Version: Commanded 148×, I command 28×, I commanded 26×
- Berean Standard Bible: Had commanded 85×, Commanded 50×, Has commanded 21×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Commanded 108×, Had commanded 74×, And 31×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6680 across 494 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 82 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6680 across 493 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 114 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6680 across 491 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 117 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6680 across 538 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 71 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
20 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 20 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Piel
- lay charge (upon), give charge (to), charge, command, order (BaZMG xli (1887), 641 Gerber 124 cp. Arabic وَصَى combine, ii. enjoin, iv. charge; وَصِيَّةٌ injunction, command; Syriac ܨܘܳܐ, head up stones, ܨܘܳܝܳܐ, stone-heap, Arabic صُوَّةٌ guide-stone, cf. Schulth 57; Gerber makes Heb. vb. denom. from מִצְוָה, but vb. is much earlier);—Pf. 3 ms. צִוָּה Gn 6:22 +; sf. צִוַּנִי Dt 4:5 +; צִוְּךָ Dt 4:23 +; צִוָּהוּ Gn 7:5 +, etc.; 1 s. צִוִּיתִי Ex 29:35 + 29 times, צִוֵּיתִי Lv 8:31 + 4 times, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְצַוֶּה Gn 18:19 + 8 times; יְצַו Dt 28:8; וַיְצַו Gn 2:16 +; sf. וִיצַוְּךָ 1 Ch 22:12, etc.; 1 s. וָאֲצַוֶּה Ezr 8:17 Qr (> Kt ואוצאה); 3 mpl. וַיְצַוּוּ Gn 50:16 +, etc.; Inf. cstr. צַוֹּת 2 S 18:5 +, etc.; Imv. ms. צַוֵּה Jos 4:16 + 2 times; צַו Lv 6:2 + 9 times; mpl. צַוּוּ Jos 1:11; 4:3; Pt. מְצַוֶּה Nu 32:25 +; cstr. מְצַוֵּה Is 55:4, etc.; f. מְצַוָּה Gn 27:8;— e.g. Genesis 6:22
- 1.
- a. lay charge upon, c. עַל pers., Gn 2:16 (J) 28:6 (P) 1 K 2:43; 11:11; Am 2:12; Je 35:6 + 6 times; עַל rei, עַל הֶעָבִים אֲצַוֶּה מֵהַמְטִיר Is 5:6, cf. Jb 36:32, צ׳ עַל־חָגָב 2 Ch 7:13. e.g. Genesis 2:16
- b. give charge to, command to c. לְ pers. Ex 1:22 (E) 1 S 20:29; 1 Ch 22:17; Is 13:3; Jer 32:23; ψ 105:8 תּוֹרָה צ׳ לָנוּ מֹשֶׁה Dt 33:4, cf. Ne 9:14; צַו לְבֵיתֶ֑ךָ 2 K 20:1 give charge to the household (in preparation for death) = Is 38:1 (cf. NH, B.Bath. 151 b, צַוָּאָה ‘verbal will’ Id 147a). e.g. Exodus 1:22
- c. give charge unto, c. אֶל pers. Ex 16:34 (P), 1 K 11:10; וַיְצַו אֶל־בֵּיתוֹ 2 S 17:23 (cf. b). e.g. Exodus 16:34
- d. give charge over, appoint, c. acc. pers. + עַל rei, Ne 7:2; 1 Ch 22:12, נָגִיד עַל (לִהְיוֹת) צ׳ appoint one (to be) ruler over 2 S 6:21; 1 K 1:35; c. לנגיד 1 S 13:14; 25:30; שׁפטים על 2 S 7:11 = 1 Ch 17:10; c. inf. (no על), לִרְעוֹת עמי 2 S 7:7 = 1 Ch 17:6; וְצִוִּיתָה אֹתוֹ לְעֵינֵיהֶם Nu 27:19 (P) and thou shalt install him in their sight, cf. v 23 (P). e.g. Nehemiah 7:2
- e. give one charge, command (often עַל concerning), Gn 12:20 (J), Nu 8:22 (P), 2 S 14:8; 18:5; Je 7:22; 39:11; Is 45:12 (AV RV Che RyKau; > Ges Ew Di Du al. as d), 10:6 (al. against), Na 1:14 (al. id.); c. לְ Nu 9:8; 32:28 (P), ψ 91:11 La 1:17 Est 3:2; c. אֶל Is 23:11 Je 47:7. e.g. Genesis 12:20
- 2. charge, command:
- a. c. acc. pers. + rei, often, especially of the law: Deut. phrases are אשׁר אנכי מצוךָ Ex 34:11 (J), Dt 4:40; 6:2, 6 + 18 times Dt, cf. 15:15; אשׁר אנכי מצוה אתכם Dt 4:2(×2) + 9 times Dt; †הַדֶּרֶךְ אשׁר ע׳ Dt 13:6; Ex 32:8 (E) Dt 5:30; 9:12, 16; 11:28; 31:29. e.g. Exodus 34:11
- b. c. acc. pers. + obj. clause, e.g., Inf. Gn 50:2 +; ו consec. Pf. 18:19 (J), Nu 35:2 (P); ו consec. Impf. 2 S 4:12; 1 K 2:46; weak ו c. Impf. Ex 27:20 (P) Jos 4:16; Imv. Jos 1:9; 1 S 18:22. e.g. Genesis 50:2
- c. acc. pers., acc. rei om., Ex 18:23 (E) Gn 49:33 (P) +; obj. given after לֵאמֹר Gn 26:11; 32:18, 20; Lv 6:2 +; וַיֹּאמֶר, etc., Gn 28:1; 49:29 +. e.g. Exodus 18:23
- d. acc. rei, acc. pers. om., צ׳ לעולם בריתוֹ ψ 111:9; †זֶה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר צ׳ י׳, Ex 16:16, 32; 35:4; Lv 8:5; 9:6; 17:2; Nu 30:2; 36:6 (P); obj. cl., Lv 8:34 (P), 13:54 (P); Gn 42:25 (E), 1 K 5:20; Ju 4:6 e.g. Psalms 111:9
- e. abs. Gn 50:16 (E), La 3:37. e.g. Genesis 50:16
- 3. charge, command, acc. pers. in phr. כַּאֲשֶׁר צ׳ Ex 23:15 (E) Gn 7:9 (P) +; ככל אשׁר צ׳ Gn 7:5 (J) Ex 29:35 (P) +; כאשׁר צ׳ י׳ משֶׁה Ex 12:28, 50; 39:1, 5 + 37 times P; ככל אשׁר צ׳ י׳ משׁה 39:32, 42 + 5 times P; †לכל אשׁר צ׳ Jos 1:18; 22:2 Je 35:8; acc. pers. om. כאשׁר צ׳ Ex 7:10 Nu 32:25 (P) +; ככל אשׁר צ׳ 2 K 11:9 = 2 Ch 23:8 +; †לכל אשׁר צ׳ Ex 36:1 (P). e.g. Exodus 23:15
- 4. charge, with command to others, commission,
- a. acc. pers. + אֶל pers. (sometimes + acc. rei) Ex 6:13; 25:22; Lv 27:34 (P) Dt 1:3; Je 27:4 Est 4:10; acc. pers. om. Gn 50:16 (E) Est 3:12; 8:9. e.g. Exodus 6:13
- b. בְּיַד of agent, + אֶל, Nu 15:23; 36:13 (P); אֶל om. Lv 8:36 (P), Ezr 9:11; Ne 8:14. e.g. Numbers 15:23
- c. acc. pers. + עַל for אֶל Ezr 8:17; 1 Ch 22:13; Mal 3:22; Est 4:5. e.g. Ezra 8:17
- d. c. acc. rei, וצ׳ בִּרְכָתִי לְ Lv 25:21 (P) and I will command my blessing to you, c. אִתְּךָ Dt 28:8, cf. ψ 133:3; צ׳ חסדוֹ 42:9, בֹּקֶר Jb 38:12, נָחָשׁ, חֶרֶב Am 9:3, 4. e.g. Leviticus 25:21
- 5. command, appoint, ordain, of divine act: in creation Is 45:12 ψ 33:9; 148:5, providence 2 S 17:14; Am 6:11; 9:9; Jb 37:12 ψ 78:23; Is 34:16, redemption ψ 7:7; 44:5; 68:29; 71:3; so of idol Is 48:5 (‖ עשׂה). e.g. Isaiah 45:12
Pual
- Pf. 3 ms. צֻוָּה Nu 3:16; 36:2; 2 ms. צֻוֵּיתָה Gn 45:19, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְצֻוֶּה Ex 34:34;—be commanded, i.e. receive command, subj. pers., Gn 45:19 (E), c. בְּ by whom Nu 36:2 (P); אשׁר צ׳ Ex 34:34 (P), כִּי־כֵן צ׳ Lv 8:35; 10:13 (P), כאשׁר צ׳ Nu 3:16 (P) Ez 12:7; 24:18; 37:7. e.g. Numbers 3:16
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
צָוָה
- , v. צוי
צְוֵי II
- (v. S. Sm. 3370) [to contract,] to be hot, dry up, wither. Pes. 56ᵃ צָאוֵי לאלתר ed. (Ar. צָוֵוי) it will at once dry up. Ib. 110ᵇ פקע וצווא דיקלא Ar. (ed. צווח דיקלא ופקע הוא, Ms. M. צְוָה) the bark burst, and the palm dried up. Ib. 111ᵃ וצְווּ כרעיה his legs shrivelled.
- to burn, desiccate. B. Bath. 24ᵇ bot. דאזיל … ומְצַוֵּי ליה the dust penetrates its heart and desiccates it (the plant).
צוי
- 1. to join, attend. Ber. 6ᵇ; Sabb. 30ᵇ לִצְווֹת לזה ed. (perh. fr. צָוַת, v. צוּת; Ar. לצבות), v. צָבַת.—[
- 2. to arrange, pile; denom. צִיּוּן.]
- (b. h.) to order, command; to appoint. Men. 44ᵃ מצוה אחת צִיוָּנוּ וכ׳ the Lord gave us one command, its name is Tsitsith. Ib. צַוֵּה עלי ויעשוני וכ׳ give orders about me, that they make me a proselyte. Sabb. 23ᵃ, a. e. אשר קדשנו … וצִוָּנוּ וכ׳ (abbrev. אקב"ו who has sanctified us through his commandments, and commanded us to &c.; והיכן צִוָּנוּ and where did he command us (where in the Torah is it intimated)? B. Bath. 151ᵇ מְצַוֶּה מחמת מיתה one who disposes of his property, because he expects to die. Sifra Tsav, end כדי המְצַוֶּה למי שנצטוה the commander was worthy of him who was commanded; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְצוּוֶּה. Kidd. 31ᵃ גדול מצ׳ ועושה וכ׳ he who is commanded, and does (a good deed, because it is God’s will) stands higher than he that is not commanded and does (a good deed); a. e.
- to be ordered, commanded. Ib. 38ᵃ שלש מצות נִצְטַוּוּ וכ׳ three commands were given to the lsraelites on their entering the land. Ib. 38ᵇ כל מצוה שנצטוו וכ׳ whatever command was enjoined upon the Israelites before they entered the land. Y. Meg. I, 70ᵈ bot. אלו המצות שנִצְטַוִּינוּ וכ׳ these are the commandments which were given us through the mouth of Moses; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 183 distinct written forms H6680 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 123 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6680, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 446 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 475 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:16
- Exodus 1:22
- Leviticus 6:9
- Numbers 1:19
- Deuteronomy 1:3
- Joshua 1:7
- Judges 2:20
- Ruth 2:9
- 1 Samuel 2:29
- 2 Samuel 4:12
- 1 Kings 1:35
- 2 Kings 11:5
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
