Exodus 12:14
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
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Ordinance
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1 Peter 2:13
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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8 occurrences in 6 verses.
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חֻקָּה
chuqqâh · khook-kaw'
12 times translated as this KJV form104 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:14Strong's last: Ezekiel 46:14
Open full H2708 profile →חֹק
chôq · khoke
6 times translated as this KJV form127 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:14
Open full H2706 profile →מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ · mish-pawt'
5 times translated as this KJV form419 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, ceremony, charge, × crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, × worthy, wrong.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 15:25Strong's last: Isaiah 58:2
Open full H4941 profile →מִשְׁמֶרֶת
mishmereth · mish-mer'-reth
3 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party
Strong's KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.
Strong's first: Leviticus 18:30Strong's last: Malachi 3:14
Open full H4931 profile →διαταγή
diatagḗ · dee-at-ag-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
arrangement, i.e. institution
Strong's KJV usage: :--instrumentality.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 13:2Strong's last: Romans 13:2
Open full G1296 profile →κτίσις
ktísis · ktis'-is
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--building, creation, creature, ordinance.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Peter 2:13Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:13
Open full G2937 profile →יָד
yâd · yawd
1 times translated as this KJV form1,573 total Strong's occurrences
a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]
Strong's KJV usage: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.
Strong's first: Ezra 3:10Strong's last: Ezra 3:10
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H2706
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
H2708
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
H4931
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
G1296
Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
G2937
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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ordinance
OR'DINANCE, noun
1. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action. An ordinance may be a law or statute of sovereign power. In this sense it is often used in the Scriptures. Exodus 15:25. Numbers 10:8. Ezra 3:10. It may also signify a decree, edict or rescript, and the word has sometimes been applied to the statutes of Parliament, but these are usually called acts or laws. In the United States, it is never applied to the acts of Congress, or of a state legislature.
2. Observance commanded.
3. Appointment.
4. Established rite or ceremony. Hebrews 9:1. In this sense, baptism and the Lord's supper are denominated ordinances.
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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