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Greek noun (feminine) · G1785

ἐντολή

entoleen-tol-ay'

generally, a charge, injunction, order, command; Esp. of religious precepts and commandments; Phrases

67 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: entolḗ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1785is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 13
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1785

injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription

The King James renders it: commandment, precept.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

entole is rendered "generally, a charge, injunction, order, command; Esp. of religious precepts and commandments; Phrases". It stands 67 times in the Greek text, across sixteen books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in 1 John, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "generally, a charge, injunction, order, command".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:19ἐντολῶν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 11 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries three meanings: generally, a charge, injunction, order, command, and Esp. of religious precepts and commandments, and Phrases.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
generally, a charge, injunction, order, commandLuk.15:29Tagged as
  • commandment31
  • a commandment8
  • a command1
  • command1
  • commands1
  • instructions1
  • of a commandment1
  • to commandments1
WhereLuke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a…
Esp. of religious precepts and commandments__(a) of God's commandmentsTagged as
  • commandments21
  • of commandments1
WhereMatthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do…
Phrasesbefore ἵνα, Jhn.13:34 15:12, 1Jn.3:23 Jn 4:21, 2Jn.6; ἐντολὴν (ὰς) παραβαίνειν, Mat.15:3; ἀκυροῦν, Mat.15:6 Rec.; τηρεῖν, Mat.19:17...Tagged aslisted under the tableWhereMatthew 15:3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἐντόςentosinsideUses2
ἐντόπιοςentopiosresidentUses1

The words it stands beside

All 67, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐντολὴν17
  • ἐντολὰς14
  • ἐντολὴ10
  • ἐντολῆς8
  • ἐντολή4
  • ἐντολαῖς3
  • ἐντολάς3
  • ἐντολῶν3
  • ἐντολαὶ1
  • ἐντολάς.¶1
  • ἐντολήν1
  • ἐντολήν.¶1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular19N-ASF
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural18N-APF
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular14N-NSF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular9N-GSF
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural3N-DPF
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural3N-GPF
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF

Matthew

six uses
  • So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

    Matthew 5:19

    • ἐντολῶνentolonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

    Matthew 15:3

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

    Matthew 19:17

    • ἐντολάς.¶entolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

    Matthew 22:36

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • This is the first and greatest commandment.

    Matthew 22:38

    • ἐντολήentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

    Matthew 22:40

    • ἐντολαῖςentolaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments

Mark

six uses
  • You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

    Mark 7:8

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

    Mark 7:9

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

    Mark 10:5

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

    Mark 10:19

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Now one of the scribes had come up and heard their debate. Noticing how well Jesus had answered them, he asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

    Mark 12:28

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

    Mark 12:31

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

Luke

four uses
  • Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

    Luke 1:6

    • ἐντολαῖςentolaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

    Luke 15:29

    • ἐντολήνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
  • You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”

    Luke 18:20

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

    Luke 23:56

    • ἐντολήν.¶entolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

John

ten uses
  • No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

    John 10:18

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

    John 11:57

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commands
  • I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

    John 12:49

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
  • And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

    John 12:50

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

    John 13:34

    • Ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: A commandment
  • If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

    John 14:15

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

    John 14:21

    • ἐντολάςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

    John 15:10

    • ἐντολάςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

    John 15:12

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

Acts

one use
  • Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

    Acts 17:15

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a command

Romans

seven uses
  • But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

    Romans 7:8

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

    Romans 7:9

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

    Romans 7:10

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

    Romans 7:11

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

    Romans 7:12

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

    Romans 7:13

    • ἐντολῆς.¶entolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

    Romans 13:9

    • ἐντολήentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

1 Corinthians

two uses
  • Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

    1 Corinthians 7:19

    • ἐντολῶνentolonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord’s command.

    1 Corinthians 14:37

    • ἐντολήentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: command

Ephesians

two uses
  • by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

    Ephesians 2:15

    • ἐντολῶνentolonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of commandments
  • “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

    Ephesians 6:2

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

Colossians

one use
  • My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you greetings, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas. You have already received instructions about him: If he comes to you, welcome him.

    Colossians 4:10

    • ἐντολάςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: instructions

1 Timothy

one use
  • Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

    1 Timothy 6:14

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

Titus

one use
  • and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

    Titus 1:14

    • ἐντολαῖςentolaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: to commandments

Hebrews

four uses
  • Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.

    Hebrews 7:5

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
  • one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

    Hebrews 7:16

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of a commandment
  • So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

    Hebrews 7:18

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

    Hebrews 9:19

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

2 Peter

two uses
  • It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

    2 Peter 2:21

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

    2 Peter 3:2

    • ἐντολῆςentolesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

1 John

fourteen uses
  • By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

    1 John 2:3

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    1 John 2:4

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

    1 John 2:7

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

    1 John 2:8

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
  • and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

    1 John 3:22

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

    1 John 3:23

    • ἐντολὴentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

    1 John 3:24

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

    1 John 4:21

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

    1 John 5:2

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

    1 John 5:3

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
    • ἐντολαὶentolainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments

2 John

four uses
  • I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

    2 John 1:4

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: commandment
  • And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

    2 John 1:5

    • ἐντολὴνentolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a commandment
  • And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

    2 John 1:6

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
    • ἐντολήentolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: commandment

Revelation

two uses
  • And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.

    Revelation 12:17

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments
  • Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

    Revelation 14:12

    • ἐντολὰςentolasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: commandments

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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