95 occurrences in 11 translations

'Ordinance' in the Bible

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.

Doubt, Dealing WithCeremoniesCelebrationsAtonement, Types OfOrdinancesMemorialRegulations For PassoverThe Law Given To IsraelCelebrationremembrancecelebrating

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

GenerationsLaw, OtNew Year, TheOrdinancesRegulations For PassoverEarthly ArmiesGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptThe Law Given To Israel

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

Aaron, Life EventsLaws Restricting ForeignersThe Law Given To Israel

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

OrdinancesEvery Year

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Miracles, Nature OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronAnswered PrayerSweetnessNamed Individuals Who PrayedWeedexams

There the LORD presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. He said, "If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what he sees to be right, listen to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then I won't inflict on you all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, because I am the LORD your healer."

God, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

If he has selected her for his son, he is to treat her according to the ordinance for daughters.

daughters

This same ordinance applies if it gores a son or daughter.

Regulations For Men And Women

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain that is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to maintain the lamp stand from evening until morning in the LORD's presence. It is to be a perpetual ordinance from generation to generation among the Israelis."

Aaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesMorningOrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesTentsPutting In OrderActing All Night

They shall be on Aaron and his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting or when they approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place so they don't incur guilt and die. This is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him."

Incurring GuiltOrdinancesTentsDeath Due To God's Presence

You are to gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and tie headdresses on them. The priesthood is to belong to them by perpetual ordinance, and you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

OrdinancesPriesthood, In OtPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationPerpetual StatutesDressGod Appointing OthersTurban And Caps

These offerings from the Israelis are to be a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his sons. They are presented offerings, and they are to be presented offerings from the Israelis out of their peace offerings. They are presented offerings to the LORD.

They are to wash their hands and their feet so that they don't die, and it is to be for them a perpetual ordinance for Aaron and his seed from generation to generation."

OrdinancesDeath Due To God's Presence

'And the second he maketh a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance, and the priest hath made atonement for him, because of his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him.

Priests Atoning

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.’”

GenerationsTouchMen WorshippingTouching Holy ThingsPermitted To Eat Offerings

The anointed priest who will be in his place among his sons shall offer it. By a permanent ordinance it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to the Lord.

and he bringeth near the burnt-offering, and maketh it, according to the ordinance;

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

CustomPurity, Moral And SpiritualThe Lord Is GodHating Uncleanness

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

Priests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

You are not to eat bread, parched grain, or fresh grain until that day when you've brought the offering of your God. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations, wherever you live."

OrdinancesPerpetual StatutesEating Forbidden Food

"On the same day, proclaim a sacred assembly for yourselves. You are not to do any servile work and this is to be an eternal ordinance wherever you live throughout your generations.

HolidayNo Work On Feast Days

You are not to do any work. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations, wherever you live.

OrdinancesPerpetual Statutes

Observe it as a pilgrimage festival in the presence of the LORD for seven days of the year. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. Observe the festival during the seventh month.

GenerationsOrdinancesMonth 7Celebrationcelebrating

Outside the Canopy of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to arrange it continually in the LORD's presence from evening until morning as an eternal ordinance throughout your generations.

OrdinancesTent Of MeetingPerpetual StatutesActing All Night

This gift will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they are to eat it in a sacred place, because it's the most holy thing for him of all the offerings made by fire to the LORD. This is to be an eternal ordinance."

Priests, Function In Ot TimesPerpetual StatutesShowbreadPermitted To Eat Offerings

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to every ordinance of the passover shall they hold it.

Passover lambLord's SupperOrdinancesRemaining OfferingsNo Bones Broken

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

Gentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.

OrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesInstrumentalists

One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

OrdinancesForeigners Included In The Law

The same law and the same ordinance will apply to both you and the foreigner who resides with you.”

ForeignersForeigners Included In The Law

then it hath been, if from the eyes of the company it hath been done in ignorance, that all the company have prepared one bullock, a son of the herd, for a burnt-offering, for sweet fragrance to Jehovah, and its present, and its libation, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

Congregationdrink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingMale AnimalsMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsRefreshing GodSacrificing CattleSacrificing GoatsUnintentional

And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

Aaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesDividing Food

"And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

daughtersWave OfferingsPerpetual StatutesAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingPermitted To Eat Offerings

All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the Lord, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your descendants with you."

Covenant, God's with Israel's priestsGod, The EternalOffspringThe Eternal CovenantFood For Priests DefinedSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiGod’s Covenant With The Levites

But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

Incurring GuiltOffenceOrdinancesNo Earthly Inheritance

This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

OrdinancesPerfection, DivineYokesAnimals, Types OfColors, ScarletHeifersRed AnimalsPerfect SacrificesUnused

Whoever gathers the ashes of the heifer is to wash his clothes and is to remain unclean until the evening. This ordinance is to remain for the benefit of both the Israelis and the resident aliens who live among them."

AshesRitual WashingStrangersClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until EveningForeigners Included In The Law

"'So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

Ritual WashingPerpetual StatutesSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the Lord commanded Moses.”

apart from the burnt-offering of the month, and its present, and the continual burnt-offering, and its present, and their libations, according to their ordinance, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah.

drink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, BurntMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsRefreshing GodMeat offerings

and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the sheep, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

their present, and their libations, for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;

Ordinances

These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

Generations

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

OrdinancesStatutes To This Day

And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring in unto the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.

GrainFeeding Animals

And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, till a flowing of blood is on them;

CustomKnivesMutilationSuperstitionDisfigurementCovered With BloodGroups ShoutingGashing Bodiescutting

and looketh, and lo, the king is standing by the pillar, according to the ordinance, and the heads, and the trumpets, are by the king, and all the people of the land are rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and Athaliah rendeth her garments, and calleth, 'Conspiracy! conspiracy!'

CustomTreacheryTrumpetMusical Instruments, types ofTreasonDuplicating WordsPillars For Solomon's TempleTrumpets For CelebrationThose Who Tore ClothesUnfaithfulRejoicing In God's Workstraitors

and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service.

Tent Of Meetingministering

because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

enquiring of GodCarrying Holy ThingsNot Enquiring Of God

He confirmed it to Jacob in the form of an ordinance, an eternal covenant to Israel,

Immortality, In OtJacob, The PatriarchThe Eternal Covenant

and for all the burnt-offerings -- burnt-offerings to Jehovah for sabbaths, for new moons, and for appointed seasons, by number, according to the ordinance upon them continually, before Jehovah.

MoonSabbath, In Ot

These are their appointments for their service, to come in to the house of Jehovah, according to their ordinance by the hand of Aaron their father, as Jehovah God of Israel, commanded them.

Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

New Moon FestivalOrdinancesSabbath, In OtSmells

And he maketh the ten candlesticks of gold, according to their ordinance, and placeth in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left.

Gold Items For The Tabernacl

and the candlesticks, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined;

And he establisheth, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister over-against the priests, according to the matter of a day in its day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at gate and gate, for so is the command of David the man of God.

GatekeepersOrdinancesDaily Duty

And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites,

Sprinkling

and "I won't let Israel's foothold slip on the land that I've given to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to keep everything that I commanded them in the Law, in the statutes, and in the ordinance through Moses."

Ordinances

And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.

Passover lambBanquets, Events CelebratedCaldrons

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Bereavement, Expression OfLamentingSongsTraditionsWritingBooksMournersanniversary

They celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.

FeastingFeast Of TabernaclesDaily Duty

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

BuildingClothing, Kinds OfBuildingMusical Instruments, types ofTrumpetOrchestrasCymbalsPraising GodSaul And DavidThe First Temple

Ezra read out of the book of the law of God every day, from the first day to the last. The Israelites celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly, according to the ordinance.

CongregationWeeksDaily DutyDay 8Seven DaysReading The Scriptures

There was, in fact, a command of the king regarding them, and an ordinance regulating the singers’ daily tasks.

SingingMusic To Celebrate

because it is a statute in Israel, an ordinance by the God of Jacob,

OrdinancesThe Law Given To Israel

He set it up as an ordinance for Josephwhen He went throughout the land of Egypt.I heard an unfamiliar language:

LanguagesLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureNot Knowing People

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

God SpeakingOld Testament Claims Inspiration

where the tribes, Yahweh’s tribes, go upto give thanks to the name of Yahweh.(This is an ordinance for Israel.)

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Covenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

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.

eagernessAskingNominal ReligionHypocrites, Description OfNot Coming Near To GodMaking Decisions

Then I said, “They are only the poor,They are foolish;For they do not know the way of the LordOr the ordinance of their God.

Fools, Characteristics OfFolly, Effects OfPoverty, SpiritualMoral BankruptcySpiritual IgnorancePoor PeopleCounted As Fools

“I will go to the greatAnd will speak to them,For they know the way of the LordAnd the ordinance of their God.”But they too, with one accord, have broken the yokeAnd burst the bonds.

YokesEscaping From GodBreaking Chains

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].[Is not such a God to be feared?]

BoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

“Even the stork in the skyKnows her seasons;And the turtledove and the swift and the thrushObserve the time of their migration;But My people do not knowThe ordinance of the Lord.

dovesSkyThe Right TimeBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsInstinctSwallowsAutumnKnowingGod's TimingGods Timing

Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I turn back to the captivity of the tents of Jacob, And his dwelling places I pity, And the city hath been built on its heap, And the palace according to its ordinance remaineth.

God, Compassion OfJacob, The PatriarchArchaeologyRebuilding JerusalemEzekiel InvasionRebirth Of IsraelLand Permanently Restored To Israelrebuilding

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:

Weights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

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.

FoodMorning WorshipOrdinancesBreakfastMoist ThingsOil On SacrificesEphah [Ten Omers]Regulations For Cereal OfferingsMeat offerings

All the administrators of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an edict that for 30 days, anyone who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den.

Examples Of FaithAgreeing For EvilConsultationsGovernorsLionsMartyrdom, Reasons ForProclamationsSuffering, Causes OfOne MonthThrowing PeopleIn Danger From LionsNot Praying

Then these men went to the king and said to him, “You as king know it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or ordinance the king establishes can be changed.”

Agreeing For EvilHuman LawUnchanging Relationships

Seek Jehovah, all ye meek of the land, who have performed his ordinance; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.

HumilityMeeknessRighteousness, Of BelieversSeeking GodAnswered PromisesSeeking For Abstract ThingsBeing Hidden From GodBe Humble!God And The HumbleHidden From GodBeing HumbleHumble Yourselfhumblenesshumble

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?

FutilityProfitsUseless ReligionServing Godimprovement

And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.

Spiritually DeadEffect Of The LawLife Through Keeping The Law

Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

defianceRebellion, Against Human AuthorityCivil GovernmentAnarchyRebellion against GodRespecting Authority

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Ordinance (95 instances)
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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חק 
Choq 
Usage: 127

חקּה 
Chuqqah 
Usage: 104

מצוה 
Mitsvah 
Usage: 181

משׁמרת 
Mishmereth 
Usage: 78

משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

διαταγή 
Diatage 
Usage: 2

δικαίωμα 
Dikaioma 
Usage: 10

δόγμα 
Dogma 
Usage: 5

κτίσις 
Ktisis 
Usage: 15

παράδοσις 
Paradosis 
Usage: 8

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