Precept

pre'-sept: A commandment, an authoritative rule for action; in the Scriptures generally a divine injunction in which man's obligation is set forth (Latin praeceptum, from praecipere, "to instruct").

See a list of verses on PRECEPTS in the Bible.

Four words are so rendered in the King James Version: (1) mitswah, very frequently (168 times) translated "commandment," but 4 times "precept" (in the Revised Version (British and American) only Jer 35:18; Da 9:5); (2) from the same root is tsaw, or tsaw (Isa 28:10,13); (3) piqqudhim, only in the Psalms (21 times in Ps 119:1-176, e.g. verses 4,15,27; also the Revised Version (British and American) Ps 19:8; 103:18; 111:7); (4) in the New Testament, entole, generally in the King James Version translated "commandment" (68 times), but twice "precept" (Mr 10:5; Heb 9:19; in both cases the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "commandment").

See COMMANDMENT.

See the definition of precept in the KJV Dictionary

D. Miall Edwards

See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.


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