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So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
Read in context →And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Read in context →16 occurrences in 15 verses.
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ṭᵉʻêm · teh-ame'
properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)
Strong's KJV usage: chancellor, command, commandment, decree, regard, taste, wisdom.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:13Strong's last: Daniel 6:26
Open full H2942 profile →dâth · dawth
a royal edict or statute
Strong's KJV usage: commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.
Strong's first: Esther 2:8Strong's last: Esther 9:14
Open full H1881 profile →ʼĕçâr · es-sawr'
an interdict
Strong's KJV usage: decree.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:7Strong's last: Daniel 6:15
Open full H633 profile →chôq · khoke
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Strong's KJV usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Strong's first: Job 28:26Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:2
Open full H2706 profile →dâth · dawth
Strong's KJV usage: decree, law.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:9Strong's last: Daniel 2:15
Open full H1882 profile →gᵉzêrâh · ghez-ay-raw'
a decree
Strong's KJV usage: decree.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:17Strong's last: Daniel 4:24
Open full H1510 profile →châqaq · khaw-kak'
properly, to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (gen.) prescribe
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
Strong's first: Proverbs 8:15Strong's last: Isaiah 10:1
Open full H2710 profile →dógma · dog'-mah
a law (civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical)
Strong's KJV usage: :--decree, ordinance.
Strong's first: Luke 2:1Strong's last: Luke 2:1
Open full G1378 profile →gâzar · gaw-zar'
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
Strong's KJV usage: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Strong's first: Job 22:28Strong's last: Job 22:28
Open full H1504 profile →dâbâr · daw-baw'
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 30:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 30:5
Open full H1697 profile →ṭaʻam · tah'-am
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
Strong's KJV usage: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Strong's first: Jonah 3:7Strong's last: Jonah 3:7
Open full H2940 profile →maʼămar · mah-am-ar'
something (authoritatively) said, i.e. an edict
Strong's KJV usage: commandment, decree.
Strong's first: Esther 9:32Strong's last: Esther 9:32
Open full H3982 profile →pithgâm · pith-gawm'
a (judicial) sentence
Strong's KJV usage: decree, sentence.
Strong's first: Esther 1:20Strong's last: Esther 1:20
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And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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DECREE, noun [Latin To judge; to divide.]
1. Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause; as a decree of the court of chancery. The decision of a court of equity is called a decree; that of a court of law, a judgment.
2. In the civil law, a determination or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties.
3. An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
4. In general, an order, edict or law made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors.
There went a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2:1.
5. Established law, or rule.
He made a decree for the rain. Job 28:26.
6. In theology, predetermined purpose of God; the purpose or determination of an immutable Being, whose plan of operations is, like himself, unchangeable.
DECREE, verb transitive
1. To determine judicially; to resolve by sentence; as, the court decreed that the property should be restored; or they decreed a restoration of the property.
2. To determine or resolve legislatively; to fix or appoint; to set or constitute by edict or in purpose.
Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established. Job 22:28.
Let us not be solicitous to know what God has decreed concerning us.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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