Exodus 18:20
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
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Ordinances
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Hebrews 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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Exodus
11 verses
Leviticus
22 verses
Numbers
11 verses
2 Kings
22 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
33 verses
Ezekiel
54 verses
Malachi
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Colossians
22 verses
Hebrews
22 verses
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חֻקָּה
chuqqâh · khook-kaw'
10 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: Leviticus 18:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:5
Open full H2708 profile →מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ · mish-pawt'
6 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: 2 Kings 17:34Strong's last: Ezekiel 11:20
Open full H4941 profile →δικαίωμα
dikaíōma · dik-ah'-yo-mah
3 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
an equitable deed; by implication, a statute or decision
Strong's KJV usage: :--judgment, justification, ordinance, righteousness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:6Strong's last: Hebrews 9:10
Open full G1345 profile →חֹק
chôq · khoke
3 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 18:20Strong's last: Malachi 3:7
Open full H2706 profile →δόγμα
dógma · dog'-mah
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a law (civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical)
Strong's KJV usage: :--decree, ordinance.
Strong's first: Ephesians 2:15Strong's last: Colossians 2:14
Open full G1378 profile →δογματίζω
dogmatízō · dog-mat-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to prescribe by statute, i.e. (reflexively) to submit to, ceremonially rule
Strong's KJV usage: :--be subject to ordinances.
Strong's first: Colossians 2:20Strong's last: Colossians 2:20
Open full G1379 profile →παράδοσις
parádosis · par-ad'-os-is
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
transmission, i.e. (concretely) a precept; specially, the Jewish traditionary law
Strong's KJV usage: :--ordinance, tradition.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 11:2Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 11:2
Open full G3862 profile →מִצְוָה
mitsvâh · mits-vaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form181 total Strong's occurrences
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
Strong's KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 10:32Strong's last: Nehemiah 10:32
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H2706
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
H2708
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
H2708
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
H2708
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
H4941
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
H4941
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
H4941
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
H4687
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
H2708
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
H4941
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
H4941
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
H2708
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
H2706
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
H2708
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
H4941
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
H2708
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
H2708
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
H2708
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
H2708
And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
H2706
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
G1345
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
G3862
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
G1378
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
G1378
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
G1379
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
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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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