חֹק chôq

Hebrew · Strong's H2706 · pronounced khoke · used 127 times in 124 verses

Meaning

an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)

In the King James Version: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.

Derivation: from H2710 (חָקַק);

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Where it is used

2 Chronicles 35:25 Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers recite laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Ezra 7:11 This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:
Nehemiah 1:7 We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 9:13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
Nehemiah 9:14 You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 10:29 hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
Job 14:5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Job 14:13 If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
Job 23:12 I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
Job 23:14 For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.
Job 26:10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Job 28:26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Job 38:10 when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
Psalms 2:7 I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
Psalms 50:16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Psalms 81:4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Psalms 94:20 Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
Psalms 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
Psalms 105:10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Psalms 105:45 that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Psalms 119:5 Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Psalms 119:8 I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
Psalms 119:12 Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:23 Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Psalms 119:26 I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Psalms 119:48 I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
Psalms 119:54 Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalms 119:64 The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:68 You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:71 It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Psalms 119:80 May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
Psalms 119:83 Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Psalms 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
Psalms 119:117 Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
Psalms 119:118 You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
Psalms 119:124 Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:135 Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:145 I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
Psalms 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
Psalms 119:171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 147:19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
Psalms 148:6 He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
Proverbs 8:29 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.
Proverbs 30:8 Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 5:22 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.
Jeremiah 31:36 “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
Jeremiah 32:11 Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—
Ezekiel 11:12 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.”
Ezekiel 16:27 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.
Ezekiel 20:18 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.
Ezekiel 20:25 I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Ezekiel 45:14 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).
Amos 2:4 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.
Micah 7:11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.