Bible word study

Entole (Strong’s G1785): Meaning in the Bible

Entole (ἐντολή) is the Greek word numbered G1785 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription. In the King James Bible it is translated commandment, precept..

• Original wordἐντολή
• Transliterationentolḗ
• Pronunciationen-tol-ay'
• Strong’s numberG1785
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G1781;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Entole appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Entole (G1785) stands behind 77 English renderings in 65 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 1 John (17), John (10), Matthew (8).

How the King James Bible renders Entole, by count

• commandment37 of 77 (48 percent)
• commandments23 of 77 (30 percent)
• the commandment4 of 77 (5 percent)
• the commandments4 of 77 (5 percent)
• the3 of 77 (4 percent)
• a2 of 77 (3 percent)

Three places to read Entole

• Matthew 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
• John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
• Hebrews 7:5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Entole in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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