Vocabulary Form
ἐντολή, -ῆς, ἡ
Definition

commandment

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ἐντολη
Frequency
67
GK
1953
Mnemonics

Moses came down and told the commandment to the people.

Mnemonic Singing

The moon shines full at His command
and all the stars obey.

Song

Biblical Concordance

Acts 17:15 Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and receiving an order (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.
Romans 7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem), produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For apart from the law, sin is dead.)
Romans 7:9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem) came, sin came to life
Romans 7:10 and I died. I found that the very commandment (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) that promised life brought death to me!
Romans 7:11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem), deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good so that sin, through the commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem), might be sinful beyond measure
Romans 13:9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” (and any other commandment (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) there may be) are summed up in this “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Rather, it is keeping God’s commandments (entolōn | ἐντολῶν | gen pl fem) that counts.
1 Corinthians 14:37 If anyone considers himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) of the Lord.
Ephesians 2:15 the law of commandments (entolōn | ἐντολῶν | gen pl fem) and regulations, so as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
Ephesians 6:2 “Honor your father and mother” — which is the first commandment (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) with a promise —
Colossians 4:10 sends greetings, you Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, my sends you greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions (entolas | ἐντολάς | acc pl fem); if he comes to you, welcome him),
1 Timothy 6:14 to keep the commandment (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) unblemished and above reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Titus 1:14 not being devoted to Jewish myths and commandments (entolais | ἐντολαῖς | dat pl fem) of people who are turning away from the truth.
Hebrews 7:5 And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a mandate (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too come from the loins of Abraham.
Hebrews 7:16 he does so not on the basis of a law expressed in a carnal commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem), but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
Hebrews 7:18 For there is an annulment of a former commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem) because of its weakness and uselessness
Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem) of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and goats together with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
2 Peter 2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have come to know the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem) that was delivered to them.
2 Peter 3:2 to remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment (entolēs | ἐντολῆς | gen sg fem) of the Lord and Savior spoken through your apostles.
1 John 2:3 Now this is how we can be sure that we know God: if we keep his commandments (entolas | ἐντολάς | acc pl fem).
1 John 2:4 The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not keep his commandments (entolas | ἐντολάς | acc pl fem), is a liar and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:7 Dear friends, it is not a new commandment (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) that I write to you, but an old commandment (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) — one that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment (entolē | ἐντολή | nom sg fem) is the message you have already heard.
1 John 2:8 Yet it is a new commandment (entolēn | ἐντολήν | acc sg fem) that I write to you, one that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.