Commanding
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Command.

2. (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.

3. (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.

4. (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.

Greek
2760. kenturion -- a centurion (a Roman army officer)
... Masculine Transliteration: kenturion Phonetic Spelling: (ken-too-ree'-ohn) Short
Definition: a centurion Definition: a centurion, an officer commanding about a ...
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3853. paraggello -- to transmit a message, to order
... Word Origin from para and aggello Definition to transmit a message, to order NASB
Word Usage charge (1), command (4), commanded (4), commanding (1), direct (1 ...
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4367. prostasso -- to place at, give a command
... 4367 (from 4314 , "move towards, ," which intensifies 5021 , "to place, arrange") --
properly, allot, emphasizing the of the one assigning (commanding). ...
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Strong's Hebrew
7336. razan -- to be weighty, judicious or commanding
... razan. 7337 . to be weighty, judicious or commanding. Transliteration: razan Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-zan') Short Definition: rulers. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6680. tsavah -- to lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command ...
... Usage appoint (1), appointed (4), appoints (1), charge (5), charged (17), charging
(1), command (56), commanded (332), commander (1), commanding (18), commands ...
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Library

Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that all Roman Citizens ...
... Book III. Chapter 22."Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All
Roman Citizens Found in Asia Should Be Slain. These things ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 22 of the edict of.htm

Whether Disobedience is the Most Grievous of Sins?
... First, on the part of the superior commanding, since, although a man should take
every care to obey each superior, yet it is a greater duty to obey a higher ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether disobedience is the most.htm

Whether Man had Mastership Over all Other Creatures?
... Over the sensitive powers, as the irascible and concupiscible, which obey reason
in some degree, the soul has mastership by commanding. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether man had mastership over.htm

Psalm LXIV.
... For that to be fulfilled in the Psalm the servant prayeth, which but now in the
Gospel the Lord was commanding. What but now was the Lord commanding? ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxiv.htm

Whether Command Belongs to Irrational Animals?
... are composed of soul and body. Objection 3: Further, by commanding, man
has an impulse towards an action. But impulse to action is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether command belongs to irrational.htm

Whether Three Parts of Prudence are Fittingly Assigned?
... Objection 4: Further, just as counselling, judging and commanding are acts of the
practical reason, so also is using, as stated above ([2765]FS, Q[16], A[1 ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether three parts of prudence.htm

1 Thessalonians iv. 15-17
... As if upon a king's commanding and saying it, those who were shut up should go forth,
and the servants should lead them out, yet they do this not from their ...
/.../homily viii 1 thessalonians iv.htm

1 Timothy iv. 3-Jan
... spirits, and doctrines of demons; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience
seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain ...
/.../homily xii 1 timothy iv.htm

The Destruction of the Churches.
... called March by the Romans, when the feast of the Saviour's passion was near at
hand, [2504] that royal edicts were published everywhere, commanding that the ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter ii the destruction of the.htm

Matt. x. 34
... Seest thou, how He signifies himself a true Son of Him that begat Him, commanding
us to let go all things beneath, and to take in preference the love of Him? ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xxxv matt x 34.htm

Thesaurus
Commanding (79 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 3.
(a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. ...
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Officer (70 Occurrences)
... John 18:12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews,
seized Jesus and bound him, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Commander (111 Occurrences)
... Commander (111 Occurrences). John 18:12 So the detachment, the commanding officer,
and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him, (See NAS NIV). ...
/c/commander.htm - 37k

To-day (208 Occurrences)
... Exodus 34:11 Observe for thyself that which I am commanding thee to-day: lo, I am
casting out from before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite ...
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Barracks (6 Occurrences)
... Acts 21:37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding
officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek? ...
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Officers (171 Occurrences)
... John 18:12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews,
seized Jesus and bound him, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). ...
/o/officers.htm - 37k

Commands (216 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish
from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you. ...
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Bound (175 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). Luke 8:29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit
to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. ...
/b/bound.htm - 41k

Captain (167 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not
having the rank of captain. 5. (n.) The master or commanding...
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Remembered (120 Occurrences)
... 15:15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt,
and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this ...
/r/remembered.htm - 37k

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Commanding (79 Occurrences)

Matthew 11:1
And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Matthew 15:35
And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground,
(See RSV)

Luke 8:29
For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
(WEB WEY ASV)

John 18:12
So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him,
(WEB)

Acts 16:22
And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat 'them' with rods,
(YLT)

Acts 16:23
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
(See NAS)

Acts 21:31
As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
(WEB)

Acts 21:33
Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
(WEB)

Acts 21:37
As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?
(WEB)

Acts 22:24
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
(WEB)

Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"
(WEB)

Acts 22:27
The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."
(WEB)

Acts 22:28
The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman."
(WEB)

Acts 22:29
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
(WEB)

Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
(See NIV)

Acts 23:10
When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
(WEB)

Acts 23:15
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
(WEB)

Acts 23:17
Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."
(WEB)

Acts 23:18
So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."
(WEB)

Acts 23:19
The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
(WEB)

Acts 23:22
So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
(WEB DBY)

Acts 23:30
But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man by the Jews, I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. Farewell.
(DBY)

Acts 24:8
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Acts 24:22
But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."
(WEB)

Acts 25:23
So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
(WEB)

1 Corinthians 7:6
But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
(DBY)

2 Corinthians 8:8
I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.
(DBY NIV)

1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

2 Timothy 2:4
Every one who serves as a soldier keeps himself from becoming entangled in the world's business--so that he may satisfy the officer who enlisted him.
(See NIV)

Revelation 6:15
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
(WEB)

Genesis 27:8
And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:
(YLT)

Genesis 49:33
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
(See JPS YLT NAS)

Leviticus 7:38
which Jehovah hath commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day of his commanding the sons of Israel to bring near their offerings to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.
(YLT)

Numbers 32:25
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak unto Moses, saying, 'Thy servants do as my lord is commanding;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 4:2
Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 4:40
and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- all the days.'
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 6:2
so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 6:6
and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 7:11
and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 8:1
All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 8:11
Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day;
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 10:13
to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 11:8
and ye have kept all the command which I am commanding thee to-day, so that ye are strong, and have gone in, and possessed the land whither ye are passing over to possess it,
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 11:13
And it hath been -- if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul --
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 11:22
For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you -- to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 11:27
the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you to-day;
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 11:28
and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 12:11
And it hath been, the place on which Jehovah your God doth fix to cause His name to tabernacle there, thither ye bring in all that which I am commanding you, your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which ye vow to Jehovah;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 12:14
except in the place which Jehovah doth choose in one of thy tribes, there thou dost cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend, and there thou dost do all that which I am commanding thee.
(YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 12:28
Observe, and thou hast obeyed all these words which I am commanding thee, in order that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee -- to the age, when thou dost that which 'is' good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 12:32
The whole thing which I am commanding you -- it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 13:18
when thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commands which I am commanding thee to-day, to do that which 'is' right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 15:5
Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 15:11
because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 15:15
and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 19:7
therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 19:9
when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days -- then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 24:18
and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 24:22
and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 26:16
This day Jehovah thy God is commanding thee to do these statutes and judgments; and thou hast hearkened and done them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 27:1
And Moses -- the elders of Israel also -- commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you to-day;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 27:4
And it hath been, in your passing over the Jordan, ye raise up these stones which I am commanding you to-day, in mount Ebal, and thou hast plaistered them with plaister,
(YLT NAS)

Deuteronomy 27:10
and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:1
And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:13
And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:14
and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 28:15
And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 30:2
and hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hearkened to His voice, according to all that I am commanding thee to-day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul --
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 30:8
And thou dost turn back, and hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and hast done all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 30:11
For this command which I am commanding thee to-day, it is not too wonderful for thee, nor 'is' it far off.
(YLT NIV)

Deuteronomy 30:16
in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.
(YLT)

Ezra 4:8
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort--
(See NIV)

Ezra 4:9
then wrote Rehum the commander, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinites, and the Apharesattechites, the Tarpelites, the Apharesites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehites, the Elamites,
(See NIV)

Ezra 4:17
Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the commander, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the River: 'Peace, and now
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 34:22
Lo, I am commanding -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and have brought them back unto this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation -- without inhabitant.'
(YLT)

Ezekiel 10:6
And it cometh to pass, in His commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, 'Take fire from between the wheel, from between the cherubs,' and he goeth in and standeth near the wheel,
(YLT)

Amos 6:11
For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house 'with' breaches, And the little house 'with' clefts.
(YLT)

Amos 9:9
For lo, I am commanding, And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As 'one' doth shake with a sieve, And there falleth not a grain 'to' the earth.
(YLT NAS)

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