חֻקָּה
statute
also: ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 73 times (70%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 29 times (28%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 3 times (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 105 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2708 appears — 101 distinct verses across 15 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 12:14 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
- Exodus 12:17 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
- Exodus 12:43 חֻקַּ֣ת n c bs cs Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
- Exodus 13:10 הַ/חֻקָּ֥ה ptcl def.art + n c bs You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- Exodus 27:21 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 28:43 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
- Exodus 29:9 לְ/חֻקַּ֣ת prep + n c bs cs You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 26 verses
- Leviticus 3:17 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs "'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
- Leviticus 7:36 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 10:9 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations:
- Leviticus 16:29 לְ/חֻקַּ֣ת prep + n c bs cs "It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
- Leviticus 16:31 חֻקַּ֖ת n c bs cs It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
- Leviticus 16:34 לְ/חֻקַּ֣ת prep + n c bs cs "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 17:7 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.'
- Leviticus 18:3 וּ/בְ/חֻקֹּתֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
- Leviticus 18:4 חֻקֹּתַ֥/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 18:5 חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 18:26 חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
- Leviticus 18:30 מֵ/חֻקּ֤וֹת prep + n c bp cs Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Leviticus 19:19 חֻקֹּתַ/י֮ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:37 חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
- Leviticus 20:8 חֻקֹּתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
- Leviticus 20:22 חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
- Leviticus 20:23 בְּ/חֻקֹּ֣ת prep + n c bp cs You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Leviticus 23:14 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- Leviticus 23:21 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
- Leviticus 23:31 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs You shall do no manner of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- Leviticus 23:41 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
- Leviticus 24:3 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Leviticus 25:18 חֻקֹּתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
- Leviticus 26:3 בְּ/חֻקֹּתַ֖/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- Leviticus 26:15 בְּ/חֻקֹּתַ֣/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
- Leviticus 26:43 חֻקֹּתַ֖/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Numbers 12 verses
- Numbers 9:3 חֻקֹּתָ֥י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
- Numbers 9:12 חֻקַּ֥ת n c bs cs They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
- Numbers 9:14 כְּ/חֻקַּ֥ת חֻקָּ֤ה prep + n c bs cs n c bs If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
- Numbers 10:8 לְ/חֻקַּ֥ת prep + n c bs cs The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Numbers 15:15 חֻקָּ֥ה חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs n c bs cs For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner [with you], a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
- Numbers 18:23 חֻקַּ֤ת n c bs cs But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
- Numbers 19:2 חֻקַּ֣ת n c bs cs This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
- Numbers 19:10 לְ/חֻקַּ֥ת prep + n c bs cs He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
- Numbers 19:21 לְ/חֻקַּ֣ת prep + n c bs cs It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
- Numbers 27:11 לְ/חֻקַּ֣ת prep + n c bs cs If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:21 חֻקַּ֣ת n c bs cs Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
- Numbers 35:29 לְ/חֻקַּ֥ת prep + n c bs cs These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Deuteronomy 8 verses
- Deuteronomy 6:2 חֻקֹּתָ֣י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 8:11 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֔י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 10:13 חֻקֹּתָ֔י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
- Deuteronomy 11:1 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֧י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
- Deuteronomy 28:15 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֔י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֖י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
- Deuteronomy 30:10 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֔י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 וְ/חֻקֹּתָ֖י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 8 verses
- 1 Kings 2:3 חֻקֹּתָ֤י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.
- 1 Kings 3:3 בְּ/חֻקּ֖וֹת prep + n c bp cs Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 1 Kings 6:12 בְּ/חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
- 1 Kings 9:6 חֻקֹּתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
- 1 Kings 11:11 וְ/חֻקֹּתַ֔/י conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
- 1 Kings 11:33 וְ/חֻקֹּתַ֥/י conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:34 וְ/חֻקֹּתָֽ/י conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
- 1 Kings 11:38 חֻקּוֹתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 17:8 בְּ/חֻקּ֣וֹת prep + n c bp cs and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
- 2 Kings 17:13 חֻקּוֹתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
- 2 Kings 17:19 בְּ/חֻקּ֥וֹת prep + n c bp cs Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- 2 Kings 17:34 כְּ/חֻקֹּתָ/ם֙ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
- 2 Kings 23:3 חֻקֹּתָי/ו֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 18:22 וְ֝/חֻקֹּתָ֗י/ו conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
- Psalms 89:31 חֻקֹּתַ֥/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;
- Psalms 119:16 בְּ/חֻקֹּתֶ֥י/ךָ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Jeremiah 6 verses
- Jeremiah 5:24 חֻקּ֥וֹת n c bp cs Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Jeremiah 10:3 חֻקּ֥וֹת n c bp cs For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
- Jeremiah 31:35 חֻקֹּ֛ת n c bp cs Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:
- Jeremiah 33:25 חֻקּ֛וֹת n c bp cs Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- Jeremiah 44:10 וּ/בְ/חֻקֹּתַ֔/י conj + prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
- Jeremiah 44:23 וּ/בְ/חֻקֹּתָ֛י/ו conj + prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.
Ezekiel 20 verses
- Ezekiel 5:6 חֻקּוֹתַ֔/י וְ/חֻקּוֹתַ֖/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
- Ezekiel 5:7 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ/י֙ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
- Ezekiel 11:20 בְּ/חֻקֹּתַ֣/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 18:9 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ֧/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 18:17 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ֖/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:19 חֻקּוֹתַ֥/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:21 חֻקּוֹתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 20:11 חֻקּוֹתַ֔/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
- Ezekiel 20:13 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ֨/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Ezekiel 20:16 חֻקּוֹתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:19 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ֖/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
- Ezekiel 20:21 בְּ/חֻקּוֹתַ֣/י prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:24 וְ/חֻקּוֹתַ֣/י conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
- Ezekiel 33:15 בְּ/חֻקּ֤וֹת prep + n c bp cs if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 37:24 וְ/חֻקֹּתַ֥/י conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Ezekiel 43:11 חֻקֹּתָי/ו֩ חֻקֹּתָ֖י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, and do them.
- Ezekiel 43:18 חֻקּ֣וֹת n c bp cs He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
- Ezekiel 44:5 חֻקּ֥וֹת n c bp cs Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 44:24 חֻקֹּתַ/י֙ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.
- Ezekiel 46:14 חֻקּ֥וֹת n c bp cs You shall prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
Micah 1 verse
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At its core, חקה (chuqqâh) means “statute.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 26:5. It appears 101 verses across 15 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Leviticus (26%), then Ezekiel and Numbers. Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “ordinance”, “limit”, and “enactment”. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2708 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 101
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 101 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #408
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 408 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 101 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 54 verses · 53%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 41 verses · 41%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Statutes 48×, Shall be a statute 10×, Statute 8×
- American Standard Version†: Statutes 46×, Statute 7×, Shall be a statute 6×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Statutes 60×, Statute 26×, Customs 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Statutes 53×, Statute 15×, Statute of 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2708 across 104† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2708 across 104† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2708 across 104† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2708 across 109† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. sg. statute, of special ritual laws: of passover Ex 13:10 (J); elsewhere only in P (and H), חקת הפסח Ex 12:43; Nu 9:12, 14; ח׳ התורה Nu 19:2; 31:21; ח׳ משׁפט Nu 27:11; 35:29; ח׳ עולם Ex 12:14, 17; 27:21; 28:43; 29;9; Lv 3:17; 10:9; 16:29, 31, 34; 23:21, 31; 24:3; Nu 10:8; 15:15; 18:23; 19:10, 21 (all P), Lv 17:7; 23:14, 41 (H); חֻקָּה אַחַת לַגֵּר ולאזרח Nu 9:14; 15:15. e.g. Exodus 13:10
- 2. pl. statutes:
- a. of nature ח׳ שׁמים Jb 38:33; Je 33:25; of moon and stars Je 31:35; of weeks of harvest Je 5:24. e.g. Job 38:33
- b. fig. of a firmly established custom ח׳ עמרי Mi 6:16; ח׳ הגוי(ם) Lv 20:23 (H); 2 K 17:8; ח׳ העמים Je 10:3; idolatry ח׳ ישׂראל 2 K 17:19; sexual offences Lv 18:30 (H). e.g. Micah 6:16
- c. ח׳ דוד statutes of David 1 K 3:3. e.g. 1 Kings 3:3
- d. ‖ משׁפטים 2 S 22:23 = ψ 18:23 (of the law known to David); ‖ מצות ψ 89:32; ברית וח׳ 1 K 11:11; elsewhere of the prescriptions of the codes of D, H, P, Ez: usually חקות ומשׁפטים Lv 18:5, 26; 19:37; 20:22 (H), 25:18; Nu 9:3 (P), 1 K 11:33 Ez 5:7; 11:20; 18:9; 20:11, 13, 19, 21; preceded by מצות Dt 30:16; followed by מצות Lv 26:15 (H), Dt 11:1; 1 K 6:12; תורה ומצוה 2 K 17:34; or else משׁפטים וחקות Lv 18:4; 26:43 (H), Ez 5:6(×2); 18:17; 20:16, 24; 37:24; preceded by מצות Dt 8:11; in diff. order, ח׳ מצות ומ׳ ועדות 1 K 2:3; frequently also ח׳ ומצות Lv 26:3 (H), Dt 6:2; 1 K 11:38; 2 Ch 7:19; or מצות (ו)ח׳ Dt 10:13; 28:15, 45; 30:10; 1 K 9:6; 11:34; Ez 43:11 (Co), 2 K 17:13; foll. by תורות Gn 26:5 (R); מצות ועדות וח׳ 2 K 23:3; תורה וח׳ Je 44:10; ותורה וח׳ ועדות 44:23; ח׳ ותורות Ez 44:5; 43:11 (Co); תורות יח׳ 44:24; special ordinances are ח׳ המזבח Ez 43:18; ח׳ בית י׳ Ez 44:5; ח׳ חיים Ez 33:15 (which are life to those who keep them); ח׳ עולם תמיד (𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Talm Co del. עולם) Ez 46:14. e.g. 2 Samuel 22:23
- e. phrases of obedience are הלך ב׳ Lv 18:3; 20:23; 26:3 (H), 1 K 3:3; 6:12; 2 K 17:8, 19; Je 44:10, 23; Ez 5:6, 7; 11:20; 18:9, 17; 20:13, 16, 19, 21; 33:15; שׁמר Lv 18:4, 5, 26; 19:19, 37; 20:8, 22 (H), Gn 26:5 (R), Dt 6:2; 8:11; 10:13; 11:1; 28:45; 30:10, 16; 1 K 2:3; 9:6; 11:11, 34, 38; 2 K 17:13; 23:3; Ez 18:19, 21; 37:24; 43:11; 44:24; עשׂה Lv 25:18 (P), Dt 28:15; 1 K 11:33; עשׂה כח׳ 2 K 17:34; בח׳ אֶשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע ψ 119:16; phrases of disobedience are מאס ח׳ Ez 20:24 מאס בח׳ Lv 26:15 (H); געל Lv 26:43 (H); עזב 2 Ch 7:19; חלל ψ 89:32.—[חֹק and חֻקָּה differ somewhat in shade of meaning and frequency in various writings: e.g. חֹק oftener in Jb ψ Pr (חֻקָּה not at all Pr, once Jb), and in Chr (חֻקָּה only 2 Ch 7:19); חֻקָּה often in K, rarely in Hex. except in P (H); in proph., חֹק occurs Am 2:4; Is 5:14; 24:5; Mi 7:11; Je 3 times, Ez 6 times, חֻקָּה only Ez, Je (6 times) and Mi 6:16; חֻקִּים especially in Dt and ψ 119, חֻקּוֹת especially in H, Ez and sometimes (8 times) Dt; חֹק עוֹלָם usually = due, חֻקַּת ע׳ much more often statute, ordinance, etc.] e.g. Leviticus 18:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Ex 13:10 something prescribed, enactment, statute;—ח׳ Nu 9:14 + 2 times; cstr. חֻקַּת Ex 12:14 + 28 times; pl. חֻקּוֹת Je 5:24 + 12 times; חֻקֹּת Lv 20:23; Je 31:35; sf. חֻקּוֹתַי Gn 26:5 + 14 times; חֻקֹּתַי Lv 18:4 + 21 times etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חק (chôq) (H2706) — statute.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֹק
- , v. חוֹק, חוּקָּה.
חָקָה
- , v. חקי
חקי
- , Pi. חִיקָּה (b. h.; denom. of חֹק)
- 1. to draw circles, to survey. Gen. R. s. 39, end (ref. to Gen. XII, 9) מְהַקֶּה והולך וכ׳ surveying as he went along, with the direction towards the Temple. e.g. Genesis 12:9
- 2. to imitate a person’s customs, to follow a person’s footsteps. Sifra K’dosh. beg. (ref. to Lev. XIX, 2) פמליא של מלך מה עליה להיות מְחַקָּה למלך Rab. (ed. פ׳ למלך ומה וכ׳) what is the duty of the King’s retinue?—To follow in the wake of the King; (Yalk. Lev. 604 מְחַכָּה). Ḥull. II, 9 שלא יְחַקֶּה וכ׳ that he may not appear to imitate the customs of the heretics. e.g. Leviticus 19:2
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 59 distinct written forms H2708 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 95 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 101 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 26:5
- Exodus 12:14
- Leviticus 3:17
- Numbers 9:3
- Deuteronomy 6:2
- 2 Samuel 22:23
- 1 Kings 2:3
- 2 Kings 17:8
- 1 Chronicles 29:19
- 2 Chronicles 7:19
- Job 38:33
- Jeremiah 5:24
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
