Definition

injunction, i.e. an authoritative prescription

Etymology

from G1781 (ἐντέλλομαι);

Word family

• ἐντέλλομαι entéllomai

How the KJV renders it

• commandment
• precept

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.