COMMANDMENTS, JUDGMENTS, LAWS,
STATUTES AND TESTIMONIES

Leviticus 26:46 “These are the statutes (choq) and judgments (mishpat) and laws (torah), which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.”

I Kings 2:3 “And Keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes (choq), and his commandments (mitsva), and his judgments (mishpat), and his testimonies (eduth), as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:”

II Chronicles 19:10 “And what cause so ever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law (torah) and commandment (mitsva), statutes (choq) and judgments (mishpat), ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.”

II Chronicles 34:31 “And the king (Josiah) stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments (mitsva), and his testimonies (eduth), and his statues (choq), with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.”

Commandments: mitzvah = a command, ordinance, precept, collectively the Law; from a primitive root to constitute, enjoin, appoint, to give a charge, set in order

Judgments:          mishpat = verdict pronounced judicially, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, justice, determination, magisterial decisions

Laws:                   torah torah = precept, direction, teaching, statute, law, Pentateuch

                             dath = law, sentence

Statutes:               choq = statute, decreed limit, portion, an enactment, appointment, appointed, bound, commandment, decree, law, ordinance, a primitive root to engrave, enact laws being cut in stone, prescribe, appoint, decree

Testimonies:        eduth = testimony, witness, concretely a witness, a recorder, primitive root to duplicate or repeat, protest, testify by reiteration, to encompass, restore, reduplicate, admonish, charge earnestly, lift up, call or take record, give warning, stand upright