Tsav צַו

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Tsav (Hebrew צַו, Strong's H6673) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “command”. It occurs 9 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) command, ordinance, oracle (meaning uncertain)
1a) used in mocking mimicry of Isaiah's words and thus not a true divine command

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	precept (4), precept precept (2), commandment (1)
BSB	order (8), worthless idols (1)

Every verse with Tsav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Isaiah 28:10
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
Isaiah 28:13
But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).