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Commandment
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COMMANDMENT, n.
1. A command a mandate an order or injunction given by authority charge precept.
Why do ye transgress the commandment of God. Matthew 15 .
This is the first and great commandment. Matt. 22.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. John 13 .
2. By way of eminence, a precept of the decalogue, or moral law, written on tables of stone, at Mount Sinai one of the ten commandments. Exodus 34 .
3. Authority coercive power.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Commandment'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/commandment.html.
Entry for 'Commandment'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/commandment.html.
