Statute
חֹקStrong’s H2706choq
Appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choq is the Hebrew word usually translated “statutes”, “decrees your” and “decree”. It appears in 124 verses of the Old Testament.
“But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.”
Meaning
- Statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, dueprescribed task · prescribed portion · action prescribed (for oneself), resolve · prescribed due · prescribed limit, boundary · enactment, decree, ordinance · enactments, statutes
How it's translated
- the statutes 18
- decrees your 15
- a decree 7
- to a prescribed portion of 6
- statutes 6
- and statutes his 6
- statutes his 4
- and the statutes 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 30
- Deuteronomy 21
- Leviticus 9
- Exodus 8
- Job 7
- Ezekiel 6
25 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 47:22Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
- Genesis 47:26And Joseph made it a law 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 5:14And 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 in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
- Exodus 15:25And 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 and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
- Exodus 15:26And 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, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֹק choq · statute
: 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “decree” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DECREE, noun
[Latin To judge; to divide.]
- Judicial decision, or determination of a litigated cause; as a decree of the court of chancery.
- In the civil law, a determination or judgment of the emperor on a suit between parties.
- An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
- In general, an order, edict or law made by a superior as a rule to govern inferiors.“There went a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed” Luke 2:1
All definitions and other forms of “decree”
- Established law, or rule.“He made a decree for the rain” Job 28:26
- In theology, predetermined purpose of God; the purpose or determination of an immutable Being, whose plan of operations is, like himself, unchangeable.
DECREE, verb transitive
- To determine judicially; to resolve by sentence; as, the court decreed that the property should be restored; or they decreed a restoration of the property.
- To determine or resolve legislatively; to fix or appoint; to set or constitute by edict or in purpose.“Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established” Job 22:28
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.