commandment

«commandment» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: order, rule — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

order, rule

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A firm order or law given by God or by a ruler, which people must obey. tree →

how it differs from today

Today commandment mostly means one of God's rules. The sentence about the Caliph's commandment uses the old sense of a ruler's order, which we would now call an order.

examples

• Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God; (Torah DEU.1.26, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) tree →
• And they took their first journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. (Torah NUM.10.13, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

commandment

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 47 (Torah 46, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.3 (Torah alone 107.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'
• And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?
• and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
• And ye shall keep My commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
• If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «commandment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.