what does the word commandment mean in hebrew
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title: Ten Commandments text: Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (, "Aseret ha'Dibrot"), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The commandments include instructions to worship only God, to honour one's parents, and to keep the sabbath, as well as prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery, theft, dishonesty, and coveting. Different religious groups follow different traditions for interpreting and numbering them. The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Hebrew Bible, in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. Modern scholarship has found likely influences in Hittite and Mesopotamian title: Thou shalt not kill text: Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not kill (LXX; ), You shall not murder (Hebrew: ') or You shall not kill"' (KJV), is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah. The imperative to not kill is in the context of "unlawful" killing resulting in bloodguilt. The Hebrew verb ("r-ṣ-ḥ", also transliterated "retzach, ratzákh, ratsakh" etc.) is the word in the original text that is translated as "murder" or "kill", but it has a wider range of meanings, generally describing destructive activity, including meanings "to break, to dash to pieces" as well as "to slay, title: Shomer Shabbat text: the media took note that the candidate for U.S. Vice President, Senator Joseph Lieberman, is a shomer shabbat. The term "shomer Shabbat" is derived from the wording of one of the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy (5:14-15), which instructs the Hebrews to "observe" the Sabbath day and sanctify it. (In Exodus, the Decalogue states that they should "remember" the Sabbath.) The term appears in the Hebrew Bible only in Isaiah 56:2,6. Shomer Shabbat is not used in the Mishnah or Talmud, it occurs a handful of times in the midrashic literature. Similarly, the term is used infrequently in medieval and early title: Ten Commandments text: laws and treaties, but is divided over exactly when the Ten Commandments were written and who wrote them. In biblical Hebrew, the Ten Commandments are called (transliterated ) and in Mishnaic Hebrew (transliterated ), both translatable as "the ten words", "the ten sayings", or "the ten matters". The Tyndale and Coverdale English biblical translations used "ten verses". The Geneva Bible used "tenne commandements", which was followed by the Bishops' Bible and the Authorized Version (the "King James" version) as "ten commandments". Most major English versions use "commandments." The English name "Decalogue" is derived from Greek , "dekalogos", the latter meaning title: Ten Commandments text: by resting on the [Jewish] Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ." Multiple translations exist of the fifth/sixth commandment; the Hebrew words ("lo tirtzach") are variously translated as "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not murder". The imperative is against unlawful killing resulting in bloodguilt. The Hebrew Bible contains numerous prohibitions against unlawful killing, but does not prohibit killing in the context of warfare (), capital punishment () and self-defence (),