צ־ו־ה

ṣ-w-y “to command”

Hebrew ṣiwwāh 'he commanded' gave miṣwāh, one of the Torah's commandments and then any good deed, and the Talmudic bar miṣwāh, 'one subject to the commandments'. Arabic waṣṣā 'to enjoin' and waṣiyya 'testament' are cognates with the consonants reordered.

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Words from this root 2

mitzvahBiblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew → English
bar mitzvahBiblical Hebrew → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	צִוָּה	ṣiwwāh	“to command”
Biblical Hebrew	מִצְווֹת	miṣwôṯ	“commandments”
Modern Hebrew	בַּת מִצְוָה	bat mitzva	“girl's coming-of-age”
Arabic	وَصَّى	waṣṣā	“to enjoin, bequeath (cognate by metathesis)”
Arabic	وَصِيَّة	waṣiyya	“testament, will”