Words the Bible translates as instruct
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tsavahצָוָהto command: to lay a binding order on someone who is expected to obey it.
- didaskōδιδάσκωto teach or instruct: to hand on understanding so that the hearer grasps it and lives by it, and at times simply to tell someone what they are to do
- paideuōπαιδεύωto form a person through training, whether by teaching, by corrective discipline, or by punishment
- yarahיָרָהto teach, instruct, or point out the way someone should go
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- to throw, shoot, or cast something through the air toward a target
- sakhalשָׂכַלto have good sense: to grasp a matter clearly and act on it skillfully, so that things turn out well
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- to lay crosswise: to set one's hands across each other
- parangellōπαραγγέλλωto give an authoritative order: to direct someone to do or stop doing something, with the standing to require it
- yasarיָסַרto discipline: to correct and train someone for their good, by words or by hardship or by blows
- zaharזָהַרto warn: to alert someone to a danger or a duty so they can act on it, and so also to instruct them or to take the warning to heart
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- to shine, to give off light or gleam brightly
- noutheteōνουθετέωto admonish: to correct someone with words, appealing to the mind so as to turn them from a wrong or harmful course, done out of care.
- sumbibazōσυμβιβάζωto hold separate parts together, so that what was apart works as one whole
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- to put facts side by side so that a conclusion follows from them
- to teach someone: to bring a person's mind together with something they did not grasp
- katēcheōκατηχέωto tell someone something by word of mouth: to inform them of it, or to teach it to them
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