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# צַו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6673

**command** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

command [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6673/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** appar. n.\[m.\], dub. word;—in הָלַךְ אַחֲרֵי־צָ֑ו Ho 5:11 usually command, ordinance; שָׁוְא; elsewhere only צַו לָצָ֙ו צַו לָצָ֔ו (‖ קַו לָקָו קַו לָקָו), Is 28:10 in mocking mimicry of Is.’s words, and, v 13, of the unintelligible speech of י׳’s foreign agents of judgment; Ges CheComm. al. (cf. AV RV) render command upon command; Ew Di (carpenter’s) rule (+ קַו = line and rule), from √ צָוָה (whence צִיּוּן); Du CheHpt. explain as mocking sounds without sense.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: command (8); a command (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.11/#tree)

עָשׁ֥וּק אֶפְרַ֖יִם רְצ֣וּץ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֣י הוֹאִ֔יל הָלַ֖ךְ אַחֲרֵי־צָֽו׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].oppressed Ephraim \[it.is\].crushed of.judgment (dm) he.was.determined he.walked after a.command

*JPS 1917:* Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.

[Isaiah 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.10/#tree)

כִּ֣י צַ֤ו לָצָו֙ צַ֣ו לָצָ֔ו קַ֥ו לָקָ֖ו קַ֣ו לָקָ֑ו זְעֵ֥יר שָׁ֖ם זְעֵ֥יר שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) command to command command to command line to line line to line a.little there a.little there

*JPS 1917:* For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6673.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6673/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).