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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandment/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandment/#x1)
- The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandment/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandment/#x3)

### 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.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.738/)
- [And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.476/)
- [and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.559/)
- [And ye shall keep My commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.662/)
- [If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.791/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «commandment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/commandment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.