All 33 Uses
precept
in
Old Testament
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- 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.†
Book 16.precepts = rules for behavior
- 119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.†
Book 19. *
- 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.†
Book 19.
- 119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.†
Book 19.
- 119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.†
Book 19.
- 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.†
Book 19.
- 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.†
Book 19.
- 119:94 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.†
Book 19.
- 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.†
Book 19.
- 119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.†
Book 19.
- 119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.†
Book 19.
- 119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.†
Book 19.
- 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.†
Book 23.precept = a rule for behavior
- 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.†
Book 23.
- 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.†
Book 23.
- 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.†
Book 23.
- 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.†
Book 23.
- 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.†
Book 23.
- 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.†
Book 23.
- 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.†
Book 23.
- 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.†
Book 23.
- 35:18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: 35:19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.†
Book 24.precepts = rules for behavior
- 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 9:5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: 9:6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.†
Book 27.
Definitions:
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(1)
(precept) a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)