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חֹק

choqH2706

statute: decree

Used 127 times in the tagged text.

H2706G · חֹק · statute: decree

What it means

  • statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : decree
  • 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

H2706H · חֹק · statute: portion

What it means

  • statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : portion
  • 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

H2706I · חֹק · statute: allotment

What it means

  • statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • : allotment/boundary
  • 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

Same idea, other words · Law and commandment

Torah means instruction before it means law. The Bible also speaks of statutes and commandments, and Paul's use of nomos has to be read in each context.

Where it appears

  • Genesis3
  • Exodus8
  • Leviticus11
  • Numbers4
  • Deuteronomy21
  • Joshua1
  • Judges1
  • 1 Samuel1
  • 1 Kings4
  • 2 Kings2
  • 1 Chronicles3
  • 2 Chronicles5
  • Ezra2
  • Nehemiah4
  • Job7
  • Psalms30
  • Proverbs3
  • Isaiah2
  • Jeremiah3
  • Ezekiel6
  • Amos1
  • Micah1
  • Zephaniah1
  • Zechariah1
  • Malachi2

Every use · 101–127 of 127 · BSB

  1. Psalms 119:124וְחֻקֶּ֥יךָand decrees your

    Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

  2. Psalms 119:135חֻקֶּֽיךָdecrees your

    Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.

  3. Psalms 119:145חֻקֶּ֥יךָdecrees your

    I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

  4. Psalms 119:155חֻ֝קֶּיךָdecrees your

    Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

  5. Psalms 119:171חֻקֶּֽיךָdecrees your

    My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

  6. Psalms 147:19חֻקָּ֥יוdecrees his

    He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

  7. Psalms 148:6חָק־a decree

    He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

  8. Proverbs 8:29חֻקּ֗וֹlimit its

    when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

  9. Proverbs 30:8חֻקִּֽיallotment my

    Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

  10. Proverbs 31:15וְ֝חֹ֗קand an allotted portion

    She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

  11. Isaiah 5:14חֹ֑קlimit

    Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

  12. Isaiah 24:5חֹ֔ק[the] decree

    The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

  13. Jeremiah 5:22חָק־a decree of

    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

  14. Jeremiah 31:36הַחֻקִּ֥יםthe fixed order<s>

    “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

  15. Jeremiah 32:11וְהַחֻקִּ֖יםand the conditions

    Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

  16. Ezekiel 11:12בְּחֻקַּי֙in statutes my

    Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

  17. Ezekiel 16:27חֻקֵּ֑ךְallotment your

    Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

  18. Ezekiel 20:18בְּחוּקֵּ֤יin [the] statutes of

    In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

  19. Ezekiel 20:25חֻקִּ֖יםstatutes

    I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

  20. Ezekiel 36:27בְּחֻקַּי֙in statutes my

    And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

  21. Ezekiel 45:14וְחֹ֨קand [the] prescribed portion of

    The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

  22. Amos 2:4וְחֻקָּיו֙and statutes his

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.

  23. Micah 7:11חֹֽקa boundary

    The day for rebuilding your walls will come— the day for extending your boundary.

  24. Zephaniah 2:2חֹ֔קa decree

    before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.

  25. Zechariah 1:6וְחֻקַּ֗יand statutes my

    But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

  26. Malachi 3:7מֵֽחֻקַּי֙from statutes my

    Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

  27. Malachi 4:4חֻקִּ֖יםstatutes

    “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

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