- Original: διάταγμα - Transliteration: Diatagma - Phonetic: dee-at'-ag-mah - Definition: 1. an injunction, mandate - Origin: from G1299 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

διάταγμα diatagma 1 x a mandate, commandment, ordinance, Heb_11:23 * commandment.

† διά -ταγμα , -τος , τό ( < διατάσσω ), [in LXX : Ezr_7:11 ( H5406 ), Ezr_3:13 , Wis_11:7 * ;] an edict, mandate: Heb_11:23 .†

διάταγμα [page 155] διάταγμα was in Imperial times the technical term for an edict, see e.g. P Giss I. 40 ii. 8 (A.D. 212) where Caracalla refers to the words προτέρου διατάγματος , in which his χάρις had been displayed : cf. also P Oxy VIII. 1100 .21 (A.D. 206), 1101 .1 (A.D. 367 70) of the edicts of Praefects, and numerous exx. in OGIS , as 458 .81 ( c. B.C. 9) κατά τε τὸ Παύλου Φαβίου Μαξίμου τοῦ ἀνθυπάτου διάταγμα . The word is used of a testamentary disposition in P Oxy X. 1282 .27 (A.D. 83) καθ᾽ ὃ ἔθετο ὁ Παποντῶς ὁπότε περιῆν διάταγμα , in accordance with the disposition made by Papontos in his lifetime (Edd.) the constr. is mixed. Cf. BGU I. 140 .25 (A.D. 119 so Mitteis Chrest. II. p. 424) ἐξ ἐκείνου τον μέ [ρ ]ους τοῦ διατάγματος , and see above under διαταγή . For διάταξις , which is not found in the NT but ten times in the LXX, we may cite BGU I. 180 .6 (ii/A.D.) παρὰ δὴ ταύτην τὴν [δι ]άτ [α ]ξιν ἐ [γὼ ] ἐπηρεάσθην μ [ε ]τὰ διετίαν τῆς [ἀπο ]λύσεως κτλ ., P Par 69 C. .18 (acts of Alexander Severus A.D. 233) αἱ γὰρ θεῖαι διατάξεις , and similarly of Imperial decrees in BGU IV. 1022 .9 (Hadrian), P Flor III. 382 .7, .30 al (A.D. 222 3), P Strass I. 22 .18 (iii/A.D.), etc.

διά-ταγμα, -τος, τό (διατάσσω), [in LXX: Est.7:11 (נִשְׁתְּוָן), Est.3:13, Wis.11:7 * ;] an edict, mandate: Heb.11:23.† (AS)