H2706: חֹק
chôq · pronounced khoke · “statute: decree”
Definition
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV translates it as: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Word origin: from H2710 (חָקַק);
Extended definition
1) statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due
1a) prescribed task
1b) prescribed portion
1c) action prescribed (for oneself), resolve
1d) prescribed due
1e) prescribed limit, boundary
1f) enactment, decree, ordinance
1f1) specific decree
1f2) law in general
1g) enactments, statutes
1g1) conditions
1g2) enactments
1g3) decrees
1g4) civil enactments prescribed by God
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2706 is translated
- statutes ×30
- your ×26
- his ×15
- my ×12
- a decree ×10
- a prescribed portion of ×9
- a statute ×3
- the prescribed portion of ×3
- the statutes of ×2
- a decree of ×2
- a limit ×2
- an allowance ×1
Bible verses with H2706 (chôq)
Chôq appears in 124 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 47:22
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
- Genesis 47:26
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
- Exodus 5:14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 12:24
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
- Exodus 15:25
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
- Exodus 15:26
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
- Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
- Exodus 18:20
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 29:28
And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.
- Exodus 30:21
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 6:18
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
- Leviticus 6:22
And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.
- Leviticus 7:34
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:11
And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
- Leviticus 10:13
And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 10:14
And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:15
The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as the Lord hath commanded.
- Leviticus 24:9
And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.
- Leviticus 26:46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
- Numbers 18:8
And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
- Numbers 18:11
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- Numbers 30:16
These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.
- Deuteronomy 4:1
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
All 124 references
- Deuteronomy 4:6
- Deuteronomy 4:8
- Deuteronomy 4:14
- Deuteronomy 4:40
- Deuteronomy 4:45
- Deuteronomy 5:1
- Deuteronomy 5:31
- Deuteronomy 6:1
- Deuteronomy 6:17
- Deuteronomy 6:20
- Deuteronomy 6:24
- Deuteronomy 7:11
- Deuteronomy 11:32
- Deuteronomy 12:1
- Deuteronomy 16:12
- Deuteronomy 17:19
- Deuteronomy 26:16
- Deuteronomy 26:17
- Deuteronomy 27:10
- Joshua 24:25
- Judges 11:39
- 1 Samuel 30:25
- 1 Kings 3:14
- 1 Kings 8:58
- 1 Kings 8:61
- 1 Kings 9:4
- 2 Kings 17:15
- 2 Kings 17:37
- 1 Chronicles 16:17
- 1 Chronicles 22:13
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
- 2 Chronicles 7:17
- 2 Chronicles 19:10
- 2 Chronicles 33:8
- 2 Chronicles 34:31
- 2 Chronicles 35:25
- Ezra 7:10
- Ezra 7:11
- Nehemiah 1:7
- Nehemiah 9:13
- Nehemiah 9:14
- Nehemiah 10:29
- Job 14:5
- Job 14:13
- Job 23:12
- Job 23:14
- Job 26:10
- Job 28:26
- Job 38:10
- Psalms 2:7
- Psalms 50:16
- Psalms 81:4
- Psalms 94:20
- Psalms 99:7
- Psalms 105:10
- Psalms 105:45
- Psalms 119:5
- Psalms 119:8
- Psalms 119:12
- Psalms 119:23
- Psalms 119:26
- Psalms 119:33
- Psalms 119:48
- Psalms 119:54
- Psalms 119:64
- Psalms 119:68
- Psalms 119:71
- Psalms 119:80
- Psalms 119:83
- Psalms 119:112
- Psalms 119:117
- Psalms 119:118
- Psalms 119:124
- Psalms 119:135
- Psalms 119:145
- Psalms 119:155
- Psalms 119:171
- Psalms 147:19
- Psalms 148:6
- Proverbs 8:29
- Proverbs 30:8
- Proverbs 31:15
- Isaiah 5:14
- Isaiah 24:5
- Jeremiah 5:22
- Jeremiah 31:36
- Jeremiah 32:11
- Ezekiel 11:12
- Ezekiel 16:27
- Ezekiel 20:18
- Ezekiel 20:25
- Ezekiel 36:27
- Ezekiel 45:14
- Amos 2:4
- Micah 7:11
- Zephaniah 2:2
- Zechariah 1:6
- Malachi 3:7
- Malachi 4:4