Strong's #2706: choq (pronounced khoke)
from 2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):--appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance(- nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
chôq
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
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2710
Usage:
This word is used 127 times:
Psalms 119:124: "thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes."
Psalms 119:135: "upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes."
Psalms 119:145: "hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes."
Psalms 119:155: "from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes."
Psalms 119:171: "praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes."
Psalms 147:19: "He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel."
Psalms 148:6: "them forever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass."
Proverbs 8:29: "When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment:"
Proverbs 30:8: "poverty feed me with food convenient"
Proverbs 31:15: "and giveth meat to her household, and a portion"
Isaiah 5:14: "and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth,"
Isaiah 24:5: "they have transgressed the laws, the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."
Jeremiah 5:22: "the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves"
Jeremiah 31:36: "If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 32:11: "both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:"
Ezekiel 11:12: "for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done"
Ezekiel 16:27: "my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered of them that hate thee, the daughters"
Ezekiel 20:18: "in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes neither observe their judgments,"
Ezekiel 20:25: "Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments"
Ezekiel 36:27: "you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, my judgments, and do"
Ezekiel 45:14: " Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of"
Amos 2:4: "of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which"
Micah 7:11: "are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed."
Zephaniah 2:2: "Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before"
Zechariah 1:6: "But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants"
Malachi 3:7: "Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, from mine ordinances, and have not kept"
Malachi 4:4: "all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."
