Bible word study

Torah (Strong’s H8451): Meaning in the Bible

Torah (תּוֹרָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H8451 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch. In the King James Bible it is translated law..

• Original wordתּוֹרָה
• Transliterationtôwrâh
• Pronunciationto-raw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH8451
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or תֹּרָה; from H3384;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Torah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Torah (H8451) stands behind 219 English renderings in 213 verses across 28 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (36), Deuteronomy (22), Nehemiah (21).

How the King James Bible renders Torah, by count

• law205 of 219 (94 percent)
• laws13 of 219 (6 percent)
• ye the law1 of 219 (0 percent)

Three places to read Torah

• Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
• 2 Kings 22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
• Psalms 119:92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

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 Torah in the original Hebrew 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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