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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.
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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
Open full H6599 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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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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