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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5 occurrences in 4 verses.
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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
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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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G3862
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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