Chuqqâh — H2708

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed
1. statute

Usually translated as

statute, ordinance, appointed, custom, manner, site

Origin

feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same

• Chôq (H2706)

Greek equivalents

• diastolḗ (G1293)

Occurrences

Chuqqâh occurs 104 times in 100 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (7), Leviticus (26), Numbers (12), Deuteronomy (8), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (8), 2 Kings (5), 2 Chronicles (1), Job (1), Psalms (3), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (20), Micah (1)

• Genesis 26:5 — Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes (חֻקּוֹתַ֥י), and my laws.
• Exodus 12:14 — And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever.
• Exodus 12:17 — And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever.
• Exodus 12:43 — And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance (חֻקַּ֣ת) of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
• Exodus 13:10 — Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance (הַחֻקָּ֥ה) in his season from year to year.
• Exodus 27:21 — In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
• Exodus 28:43 — And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever unto him and his seed after him.
• Exodus 29:9 — And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute (לְחֻקַּ֣ת): and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
• Leviticus 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
• Leviticus 7:36 — Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever throughout their generations.
• Leviticus 10:9 — Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever throughout your generations:
• Leviticus 16:29 — And this shall be a statute (לְחֻקַּ֣ת) for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
• Leviticus 16:31 — It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute (חֻקַּ֖ת) for ever.
• Leviticus 16:34 — And this shall be an everlasting statute (לְחֻקַּ֣ת) unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Leviticus 17:7 — And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever unto them throughout their generations.
• Leviticus 18:3 — After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances (וּבְחֻקֹּתֵיהֶ֖ם).
• Leviticus 18:4 — Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances (חֻקֹּתַ֥י), to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
• Leviticus 18:5 — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes (חֻקֹּתַי֙), and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 18:26 — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes (חֻקֹּתַי֙) and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
• Leviticus 18:30 — Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs (מֵחֻקּ֤וֹת), which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
• Leviticus 19:19 — Ye shall keep my statutes (חֻקֹּתַי֮). Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
• Leviticus 19:37 — Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes (חֻקֹּתַי֙), and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 20:8 — And ye shall keep my statutes (חֻקֹּתַ֔י), and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
• Leviticus 20:22 — Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes (חֻקֹּתַי֙), and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
• Leviticus 20:23 — And ye shall not walk in the manners (בְּחֻקֹּ֣ת) of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
• Leviticus 23:14 — And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Leviticus 23:21 — And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Leviticus 23:31 — Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Leviticus 23:41 — And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
• Leviticus 24:3 — Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֥ת) for ever in your generations.
• Leviticus 25:18 — Wherefore ye shall do my statutes (חֻקֹּתַ֔י), and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
• Leviticus 26:3 — If ye walk in my statutes (בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖י), and keep my commandments, and do them;
• Leviticus 26:15 — And if ye shall despise my statutes (בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י), or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
• Leviticus 26:43 — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes (חֻקֹּתַ֖י).
• Numbers 9:3 — In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites (חֻקֹּתָ֥יו) of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
• Numbers 9:12 — They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances (חֻקַּ֥ת) of the passover they shall keep it.
• Numbers 9:14 — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance (כְּחֻקַּ֥ת) of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
• Numbers 9:14 — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance (חֻקָּ֤ה), both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
• Numbers 10:8 — And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance (לְחֻקַּ֥ת) for ever throughout your generations.
• Numbers 15:15 — One ordinance (חֻקָּ֥ה) shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
• Numbers 15:15 — One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
• Numbers 18:23 — But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute (חֻקַּ֤ת) for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
• Numbers 19:2 — This is the ordinance (חֻקַּ֣ת) of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
• Numbers 19:10 — And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute (לְחֻקַּ֥ת) for ever.
• Numbers 19:21 — And it shall be a perpetual statute (לְחֻקַּ֣ת) unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
• Numbers 27:11 — And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute (לְחֻקַּ֣ת) of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Numbers 31:21 — And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance (חֻקַּ֣ת) of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
• Numbers 35:29 — So these things shall be for a statute (לְחֻקַּ֥ת) of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
• Deuteronomy 6:2 — That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes (חֻקֹּתָ֣יו) and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
• Deuteronomy 8:11 — Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes (וְחֻקֹּתָ֔יו), which I command thee this day: