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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Precepts
Thompson Chain Reference
• Precepts, Human
Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Precept
King James Dictionary
• Precept
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Precepts, Negative
• Precepts, Affirmative
• Precept
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Precept
Webster Dictionary
• Preceptive
• Preception
• Precept
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Precept
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Precept
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Noachian Precepts
• Precept
• Precepts, the Six Hundred and Thirteen
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Canonical Precept
Lexicons
• ܦ݁ܽܘܩܳܕ݂ܳܐ
• ܦ݁ܽܘܩܕ݁ܳܢܳܐ
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Charge, Precept
• ἔνταλμα
• ἐντολή
• מִצְוָה
• פִּקוּדִּים
• צַו

A rule given by a superior; a direction or command. The precepts of religion, says Saurin, are not essential as the doctrines; and religion will as certainly sink, if the morality be subverted, as if the theology be undermined. The doctrines are only proposed to us as the ground of our duty.

See DOCTRINE.