דָּת
dâth · dawth
a royal edict or statute
Lexicon
Derivation: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation;
a royal edict or statute
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the mark, the covenant sign
The doorway, the way in of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
21 occurrences · 21 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and his decree4 · 18%
- law3 · 14%
- and the decree3 · 14%
- for a commandment2 · 9%
- commissions1 · 5%
- was according to the law1 · 5%
- according to law1 · 5%
- among the laws1 · 5%
- according to the manner1 · 5%
- and their laws1 · 5%
- laws1 · 5%
- of the decree1 · 5%
- which is not according to the law1 · 5%
- decree1 · 5%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.