Usually translated as
statute, decree, ordinance, due, law, portion, custom, appointed, convenient, decreed, measure, necessary, ordinary, set time, task, bound, commandment
Occurrences
Chôq occurs 127 times in 124 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (8), Leviticus (9), Numbers (4), Deuteronomy (21), Joshua (1), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (4), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (5), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (4), Job (7), Psalms (30), Proverbs (3), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (6), Amos (1), Micah (1), Zephaniah (1), Zechariah (1), Malachi (2)
- Genesis 47:22 — Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion (חֹ֨ק) assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
- Genesis 47:22 — Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion (חֻקָּם֙) which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
- Genesis 47:26 — And Joseph made it a law (לְחֹק֩) over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
- Exodus 5:14 — And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task (חָקְכֶ֤ם) in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 12:24 — And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance (לְחָק) to thee and to thy sons for ever.
- Exodus 15:25 — And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute (חֹ֥ק) and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
- Exodus 15:26 — And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes (חֻקָּ֑יו), I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
- Exodus 18:16 — When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes (חֻקֵּ֥י) of God, and his laws.
- Exodus 18:20 — And thou shalt teach them ordinances (הַחֻקִּ֖ים) and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 29:28 — And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ by a statute (לְחָק) for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
- Exodus 30:21 — So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute (חָק) for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 6:18 — All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute (חָק) for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
- Leviticus 6:22 — And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute (חָק) for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
- Leviticus 7:34 — For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute (לְחָק) for ever from among the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:11 — And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes (הַ֣חֻקִּ֔ים) which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
- Leviticus 10:13 — And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due (חָקְךָ֤), and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 10:13 — And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due (וְחָק), of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
- Leviticus 10:14 — And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due (חָקְךָ֤), and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:14 — And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due (וְחָק), which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 10:15 — The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute (לְחָק) for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
- Leviticus 24:9 — And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute (חָק).
- Leviticus 26:46 — These are the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים) and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
- Numbers 18:8 — And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance (לְחָק) for ever.
- Numbers 18:11 — And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute (לְחָק) for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:19 — All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute (לְחָק) for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- Numbers 30:16 — These are the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֗ים), which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 — Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּים֙) and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 — Behold, I have taught you statutes (חֻקִּים֙) and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:6 — Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes (הַחֻקִּ֣ים), and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
- Deuteronomy 4:8 — And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes (חֻקִּ֥ים) and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
- Deuteronomy 4:14 — And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes (חֻקִּ֖ים) and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:40 — Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes (חֻקָּ֣יו), and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Deuteronomy 4:45 — These are the testimonies, and the statutes (וְהַֽחֻקִּ֖ים), and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 5:1 — And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes (הַחֻקִּ֣ים) and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
- Deuteronomy 5:31 — But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes (וְהַחֻקִּ֥ים), and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 — Now these are the commandments, the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּים֙), and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
- Deuteronomy 6:17 — Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes (וְחֻקָּ֖יו), which he hath commanded thee.
- Deuteronomy 6:20 — And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes (וְהַֽחֻקִּים֙), and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
- Deuteronomy 6:24 — And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes (הַחֻקִּ֣ים), to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
- Deuteronomy 7:11 — Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים), and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
- Deuteronomy 11:32 — And ye shall observe to do all the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֖ים) and judgments which I set before you this day.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 — These are the statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֣ים) and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
- Deuteronomy 16:12 — And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes (הַֽחֻקִּ֖ים).
- Deuteronomy 17:19 — And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes (הַחֻקִּ֥ים), to do them:
- Deuteronomy 26:16 — This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes (הַחֻקִּ֥ים) and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
- Deuteronomy 26:17 — Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes (חֻקָּ֧יו), and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
- Deuteronomy 27:10 — Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes (חֻקָּ֔יו), which I command thee this day.
- Joshua 24:25 — So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute (חֹ֥ק) and an ordinance in Shechem.
- Judges 11:39 — And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom (חֹ֖ק) in Israel,
- 1 Samuel 30:25 — And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute (לְחֹ֤ק) and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.