Words the Bible translates as custom
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- derekhדֶּרֶךְa way: the road you travel, and by extension the path your whole life takes
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- possibly, dominion or power: rule or might, in a few disputed poetic lines
- mishpatמִשְׁפָּטthe rightful exercise of authority that sets and keeps things in order: the act of judging a case, the verdict that settles it, the work of governing justly, the standing laws that flow from it, and the justice all of this is meant to embody.
- telosτέλοςa tax or customs duty: a payment owed to a governing authority
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- the point a thing arrives at: where it stops, what it comes to, or the goal it was aiming for
- ḥuqqahחֻקָּהa statute: a fixed, prescribed regulation laid down to be kept, whether a binding law, a permanent religious observance, an inherited custom, or one of the set orders of nature
- datדָּתan authoritative rule handed down by a ruler: a royal decree, or the settled law of a kingdom
- ethosἔθοςan established practice: the way something is regularly and expectedly done, settled by long use rather than by fresh command
- sunētheiaσυνήθειαan established custom: an accepted, repeated way of doing things that a group takes for granted
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- being accustomed to something: the ingrained habit of a former way of life that still shapes a person
- torahתּוֹרָהcustomnot studied yet
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