Word study · Hebrew
תּוֹרָה
to.rahH8451instruction
Used 219 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- law, direction, instruction
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) law, direction, instruction
- 1a) instruction, direction (human or divine)
- 1a1) body of prophetic teaching
- 1a2) instruction in Messianic age
- 1a3) body of priestly direction or instruction
- 1a4) body of legal directives
- 1b) law
- 1b1) law of the burnt offering
- 1b2) of special law, codes of law
- 1c) custom, manner
- 1d) the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law
Same idea, other words · Law and commandment
Torah means instruction before it means law. The Bible also speaks of statutes and commandments, and Paul's use of nomos has to be read in each context.
Where it appears
- Genesis1
- Exodus7
- Leviticus16
- Numbers10
- Deuteronomy22
- Joshua9
- 1 Kings1
- 2 Kings10
- 1 Chronicles2
- 2 Chronicles17
- Ezra4
- Nehemiah21
- Job1
- Psalms36
- Proverbs13
- Isaiah12
- Jeremiah11
- Lamentations1
- Ezekiel7
- Daniel4
- Hosea3
- Amos1
- Micah1
- Habakkuk1
- Zephaniah1
- Haggai1
- Zechariah1
- Malachi5
Every use · 1–50 of 219 · BSB
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
Teach them the statutes and laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
“Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.
“Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.
Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”
“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,
to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.
Now this is the law of the Nazirite when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”
This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:
On the east side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:
And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
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