TBESH · H2708
חֻקָּה · chuq.qah · statute
1) statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed 1a) statute
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chuq.qah H2708
חֻקָּה (chuq.qah) means “statute” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
חֻקָּה Hebrew · H2708 104 tagged occurrences in 100 verses
Pronunciation guide: khook-kaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine of H2706 (חֹק), and meaning substantially the same {an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}
KJV glosses: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
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How translators render H2708
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 |
|---|---|
| statute | 26 |
| my statutes | 25 |
| and statutes | 8 |
| his statutes | 6 |
| the statutes | 5 |
| in my statutes | 4 |
| its statutes | 4 |
| is the statute | 3 |
| statutes | 3 |
| a statutory | 2 |
| in the statutes | 2 |
| according to the customs | 1 |
| against my statutes | 1 |
| and my statutes | 1 |
| and the fixed order | 1 |
| are the statutes | 1 |
| customs | 1 |
| in the customs | 1 |
| in their customs | 1 |
| in your statutes | 1 |
| nor kept my statutes | 1 |
| or the statutes | 1 |
| portion | 1 |
| the appointed | 1 |
| the customs | 1 |
| the laws | 1 |
| who sets in order | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| my statutes | 16 |
| a statute | 11 |
| and his statutes | 8 |
| in my statutes | 7 |
| and my statutes | 5 |
| all my statutes | 4 |
| in the statutes | 4 |
| statute | 4 |
| his statutes | 3 |
| not in my statutes | 3 |
| ordinance | 3 |
| the ordinance | 3 |
| the ordinances | 3 |
| by an ordinance | 2 |
| thereof and all the ordinances | 2 |
| according to all the rites | 1 |
| according to the ordinance | 1 |
| all his statutes | 1 |
| an ordinance | 1 |
| and they shall be to you for an ordinance | 1 |
| by a statute | 1 |
| customs | 1 |
| for the customs | 1 |
| for the statutes | 1 |
| in the manners | 1 |
| in their ordinances | 1 |
| mine ordinances | 1 |
| myself in thy statutes | 1 |
| nor in his statutes | 1 |
| nor in my statutes | 1 |
| of it according to all the ordinances | 1 |
| shall be a statute | 1 |
| shall be for a statute | 1 |
| them for a statute | 1 |
| them my statutes | 1 |
| they after their statutes | 1 |
| this ordinance | 1 |
| this shall be a statute | 1 |
| thou the ordinances | 1 |
| unto thee concerning all the ordinances | 1 |
| unto us the appointed | 1 |
Verses containing H2708
Page 2 of 2. 100 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Deuteronomy 28:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 30:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 22:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 2:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 11:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 23:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So 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. And all the people entered into the covenant.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 7:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Read word by word - Job 38:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
Read word by word - Psalms 18:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.23
- Psalms 89:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.32
- Psalms 119:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 5:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 10:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 31:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
Read word by word - Jeremiah 33:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”
Read word by word - Ezekiel 5:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 5:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 11:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 18:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 18:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 18:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 18:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 20:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 33:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 37:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 43:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 43:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then He said to me: “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 44:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 46:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.
Read word by word - Micah 6:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
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