mitzvah

n. (Hebrew) good deed; commandment, Jewish law of moral conduct

This article is about commandments in Judaism. For the Jewish rite of passage, see Bar Mitzvah and Bat MitzvahMitzvah (Hebrew: מצווה, , "commandment"; plural, mitzvot; from צוה, tzavah, "command") is a word used in Judaism to refer to (a) the commandments, of which there are 613, given in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) or (b) any Jewish law at all. The term can also refer to the fulfillment of a mitzvah as defined above.
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Noun
1. (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law
(synonym) mitsvah
(hypernym) teaching, precept, commandment
(classification) Judaism
2. (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty
(synonym) mitsvah
(hypernym) deed, feat, effort, exploit
(classification) Judaism

Synonyms and related words:
act of grace, act of kindness, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, canon, code, commandment, convention, courtesy, dictum, favor, form, formula, general principle, golden rule, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, guideline, guiding principle, imperative, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, law, maxim, mercy, moral, norm, obligation, office, ordinance, principium, principle, regulation, rubric, rule, service, settled principle, standard, tenet, turn, working principle, working rule