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Word study · Hebrew

תּוֹרָה

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instruction

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 · 51–100 of 219 · BSB

  1. Deuteronomy 31:12הַתּוֹרָ֥הthe law

    Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

  2. Deuteronomy 31:24הַתּוֹרָֽה־the law

    When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

  3. Deuteronomy 31:26הַתּוֹרָה֙the law

    “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

  4. Deuteronomy 32:46הַתּוֹרָ֥הthe law

    he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

  5. Deuteronomy 33:4תּוֹרָ֥הa law

    the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

  6. Deuteronomy 33:10וְתוֹרָתְךָ֖and law your

    He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

  7. Joshua 1:7הַתּוֹרָ֗הthe law

    Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.

  8. Joshua 1:8הַתּוֹרָ֨הthe law

    This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

  9. Joshua 8:31תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

  10. Joshua 8:32תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

  11. Joshua 8:34הַתּוֹרָ֔הthe law

    Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

  12. Joshua 8:34הַתּוֹרָֽהthe law

    Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

  13. Joshua 22:5הַתּוֹרָה֮the law

    But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

  14. Joshua 23:6תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

  15. Joshua 24:26תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

  16. 1 Kings 2:3בְּתוֹרַ֣תin [the] law of

    And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,

  17. 2 Kings 10:31בְּתֽוֹרַת־in [the] law of

    Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

  18. 2 Kings 14:6תּֽוֹרַת־[the] law of

    Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

  19. 2 Kings 17:13הַתּוֹרָ֔הthe law

    Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

  20. 2 Kings 17:34וְכַתּוֹרָ֣הand according to the law

    To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

  21. 2 Kings 17:37וְהַתּוֹרָ֤הand the law

    And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.

  22. 2 Kings 21:8הַ֨תּוֹרָ֔הthe law

    I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

  23. 2 Kings 22:8הַתּוֹרָ֛הthe law

    Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.

  24. 2 Kings 22:11הַתּוֹרָ֑הthe law

    When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes

  25. 2 Kings 23:24הַתּוֹרָה֙the law

    Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

  26. 2 Kings 23:25תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.

  27. 1 Chronicles 16:40בְּתוֹרַ֣תin [the] law of

    to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.

  28. 1 Chronicles 22:12תּוֹרַ֖ת[the] law of

    Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.

  29. 2 Chronicles 6:16בְּת֣וֹרָתִ֔יin law my

    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

  30. 2 Chronicles 12:1תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.

  31. 2 Chronicles 14:4הַתּוֹרָ֥הthe law

    He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.

  32. 2 Chronicles 15:3תוֹרָֽה[the] law

    For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

  33. 2 Chronicles 17:9תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

  34. 2 Chronicles 19:10תּוֹרָ֣הlaw

    For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

  35. 2 Chronicles 23:18בְּתוֹרַ֥תin [the] law of

    Moreover, Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of the LORD into the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had appointed over the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD as is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and song, as ordained by David.

  36. 2 Chronicles 25:4בַּתּוֹרָ֡הin the law

    Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

  37. 2 Chronicles 30:16כְּתוֹרַ֖תaccording to [the] law of

    They stood at their prescribed posts, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood, which they received from the hand of the Levites.

  38. 2 Chronicles 31:3בְּתוֹרַ֥תin [the] law of

    The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.

  39. 2 Chronicles 31:4בְּתוֹרַ֥תin [the] law of

    Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.

  40. 2 Chronicles 31:21וּבַתּוֹרָה֙and in the law

    He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

  41. 2 Chronicles 33:8הַתּוֹרָ֛הthe law

    I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”

  42. 2 Chronicles 34:14תּֽוֹרַת־[the] law of

    While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD written by Moses.

  43. 2 Chronicles 34:15הַתּוֹרָ֛הthe law

    And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan.

  44. 2 Chronicles 34:19הַתּוֹרָ֑הthe law

    When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes

  45. 2 Chronicles 35:26בְּתוֹרַ֥תin [the] law of

    As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—

  46. Ezra 3:2בְּתוֹרַ֖תin [the] law of

    Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

  47. Ezra 7:6בְּתוֹרַ֣תin [the] law of

    this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

  48. Ezra 7:10תּוֹרַ֥ת[the] law of

    For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

  49. Ezra 10:3וְכַתּוֹרָ֖הand according to the law

    So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

  50. Nehemiah 8:1תּוֹרַ֣ת[the] law of

    At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

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