חֹק (choq) means “statute: decree” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: khoke Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
חֹק · choq · statute: decree
: 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
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חֹק · choq · statute: portion
: 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
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חֹק · choq · statute: allotment
: 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
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from H2710 (חָקַק); an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV glosses: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| your statutes | 16 |
| statutes | 13 |
| and statutes | 11 |
| the statutes | 11 |
| his statutes | 7 |
| statute | 6 |
| my statutes | 5 |
| portion | 4 |
| a statute | 2 |
| are the statutes | 2 |
| as a decree | 2 |
| on your statutes | 2 |
| the decree | 2 |
| a boundary | 1 |
| a custom | 1 |
| a decree | 1 |
| a horizon | 1 |
| a law | 1 |
| a limit | 1 |
| a time | 1 |
| and conditions | 1 |
| and my statutes | 1 |
| and portions | 1 |
| and the statutes | 1 |
| as a statute | 1 |
| barrier | 1 |
| decree | 1 |
| fixed order | 1 |
| from my statutes | 1 |
| from your statutes | 1 |
| his decree against me | 1 |
| his portion | 1 |
| in his statutes | 1 |
| in my statutes | 1 |
| in the statutes | 1 |
| in your statutes | 1 |
| is a statute | 1 |
| is your share | 1 |
| its boundaries | 1 |
| its statutes | 1 |
| limits | 1 |
| more than my daily bread | 1 |
| of your statutes | 1 |
| that is my portion | 1 |
| the decrees | 1 |
| the prescribed portion | 1 |
| the rations that | 1 |
| these portions | 1 |
| to statutes | 1 |
| your boundary | 1 |
| your portion | 1 |
| your quota | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the statutes | 8 |
| me thy statutes | 7 |
| thy statutes | 7 |
| and the statutes | 6 |
| and his statutes | 5 |
| his statutes | 4 |
| my statutes | 4 |
| statutes | 4 |
| a statute | 3 |
| in thy statutes | 3 |
| with thee by a statute | 3 |
| a decree | 2 |
| all the statutes | 2 |
| all these statutes | 2 |
| by a statute | 2 |
| due | 2 |
| for a law | 2 |
| in my statutes | 2 |
| these statutes | 2 |
| thy due | 2 |
| you statutes | 2 |
| all his statutes | 1 |
| and a portion | 1 |
| and custom | 1 |
| and it was a custom | 1 |
| and my statutes | 1 |
| and of his statutes | 1 |
| and the ordinance | 1 |
| and these statutes | 1 |
| and thy statutes | 1 |
| appointed | 1 |
| before the decree | 1 |
| by a law | 1 |
| by an ordinance | 1 |
| concerning the ordinance | 1 |
| convenient | 1 |
| decree | 1 |
| for an ordinance | 1 |
| for it my decreed | 1 |
| for them a statute | 1 |
| from mine ordinances | 1 |
| from thy statutes | 1 |
| had a portion | 1 |
| his bounds | 1 |
| his commandments | 1 |
| his decree | 1 |
| if those ordinances | 1 |
| in his statutes | 1 |
| it a law | 1 |
| it a statute | 1 |
| me a set time | 1 |
| more than my necessary | 1 |
| nor the statutes | 1 |
| not and it shall be a statute | 1 |
| not thy statutes | 1 |
| of thy statutes | 1 |
| shall the decree | 1 |
| statute | 1 |
| that hath statutes | 1 |
| the decree | 1 |
| the ordinance | 1 |
| their portion | 1 |
| them a statute | 1 |
| them also statutes | 1 |
| them an ordinance | 1 |
| them ordinances | 1 |
| therefore his statutes | 1 |
| thine ordinary | 1 |
| unto the statutes | 1 |
| unto thy statutes | 1 |
| with bounds | 1 |
| without measure | 1 |
| ye not in the statutes | 1 |
| your task | 1 |
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And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
Read word by wordThey rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
Read word by wordAnd you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
Read word by wordHe confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Read word by wordThen you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
Read word by wordAnd give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”
Read word by wordAnd as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
Read word by wordFor every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
Read word by wordI will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”
Read word by wordSo the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordFor Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Read word by wordThis 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:
Read word by wordWe have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
Read word by wordYou came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
Read word by wordYou revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
Read word by wordhereby 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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.30
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
Read word by wordIf 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!
Read word by wordI have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
Read word by wordFor He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.
Read word by wordHe has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Read word by wordwhen He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Read word by wordwhen I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
Read word by wordI will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
Read word by wordTo the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Read word by wordFor this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 81.5
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
Read word by wordHe spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
Read word by wordHe confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Read word by wordthat they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Read word by wordOh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Read word by wordI will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
Read word by wordBlessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordThough rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Read word by wordI recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordTeach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Read word by wordI lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
Read word by wordYour statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
Read word by wordThe earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordYou are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordIt was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Read word by wordMay my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
Read word by wordThough I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Read word by wordI have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
Read word by wordUphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
Read word by wordYou reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
Read word by wordDeal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordMake Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
Read word by wordI call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
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