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Lexicon :: Strong's H2708 - ḥuqqâ

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חֻקָּה
Transliteration
ḥuqqâ
Pronunciation
khook-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 728b

Strong’s Definitions

חֻקָּה chuqqâh, khook-kaw'; feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same:—appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x

The KJV translates Strong's H2708 in the following manner: statute (77x), ordinance (22x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), manners (1x), rites (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 104x
The KJV translates Strong's H2708 in the following manner: statute (77x), ordinance (22x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), manners (1x), rites (1x).
  1. statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed

    1. statute

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֻקָּה chuqqâh, khook-kaw'; feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same:—appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
STRONGS H2708: Abbreviations
חֻקָּה 104 noun feminineExodus 13:10 something prescribed, enactment, statute; — ח׳ Numbers 9:14 + 2 times; construct חֻקַּת Exodus 12:14 + 28 times; plural חֻקּוֺת Jeremiah 5:24 + 12 times; חֻקֹּת Leviticus 20:23; Jeremiah 31:35; suffix חֻקּוֺתַי Genesis 26:5 + 14 times; חֻקֹּתַי Leviticus 18:4 + 21 times etc.; —
1. singular statute, of special ritual laws: of passover Exodus 13:10 (J); elsewhere only in P (and H), חקת הפסח Exodus 12:43; Numbers 9:12, 14; התורה ח׳ Numbers 19:2; Numbers 31:21; משׁפט ח׳ Numbers 27:11; Numbers 35:29; עולם ח׳ Exodus 12:14, 17; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 28:43; Exodus 29:9; Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:9; Leviticus 16:29, 31, 34; Leviticus 23:21, 31; Leviticus 24:3; Numbers 10:8; Numbers 15:15; Numbers 18:23; Numbers 19:10, 21 (all P), Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 23:14, 41 (H); חֻקָּה אַחַת לַגֵּר ולאזרךְ Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:15.
2. plural statutes:
a. of nature שׁמים ח׳ Job 38:33; Jeremiah 33:25; of moon and stars Jeremiah 31:35; of weeks of harvest Jeremiah 5:24.
b. figurative of a firmly established custom הגוי(םׅ ח׳ Leviticus 20:23 (H) 2 Kings 17:8; העמים ח׳ Jeremiah 10:3 עמרי ח׳ Micah 6:16; idolatry ישׂראל ח׳ 2 Kings 17:19; sexual offences Leviticus 18:30 (H).
c. דוד ח׳ statutes of David 1 Kings 3:3.
d. || משׁפטים 2 Samuel 22:23Psalm 18:23 (of the law known to David); || מצות Psalm 89:32; ברית וח׳ 1 Kings 11:11; elsewhere of the prescriptions of the codes of D, H, P, Ezekiel: usually חקות ומשׁפטים Leviticus 18:5, 26; Leviticus 19:37; Leviticus 20:22 (H), Leviticus 25:18; Numbers 9:3 (P), 1 Kings 11:33; Ezekiel 5:7; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 18:9; Ezekiel 20:11, 13, 19, 21; preceded by מצות Deuteronomy 30:16; followed by מצות Leviticus 26:15 (H), Deuteronomy 11:1; 1 Kings 6:12; תורה ומצוה 2 Kings 17:34; or else משׁפטים וחקות Leviticus 18:4; Leviticus 26:43 (H), Ezekiel 5:6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 20:16, 24; Ezekiel 37:24; preceded by מצות Deuteronomy 8:11; in different order, ועדות מצות ומ׳ ח׳ 1 Kings 2:3; frequently also ומצות ח׳ Leviticus 26:3 (H), Deuteronomy 6:2; 1 Kings 11:38; 2 Chronicles 7:19; or מצות (ו)ח׳ Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 28:15, 45; Deuteronomy 30:10; 1 Kings 9:6; 1 Kings 11:34; Ezekiel 43:11 (Co), 2 Kings 17:13; followed by תורות Genesis 26:5 (R); מצות ועדות וח׳ 2 Kings 23:3; תורה וח׳ Jeremiah 44:10; ותורה וח׳ ועדות Jeremiah 44:23; ותורות ח׳ Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 43:11 (Co); תורות יח׳ Ezekiel 44:24; special ordinances are המזבח ח׳ Ezekiel 43:18; בית י׳ ח׳ Ezekiel 44:5; חיים ח׳ Ezekiel 33:15 (which are life to those who keep them); עולם תמיד ח׳ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Talm Co strike out עולם) Ezekiel 46:14.
[חֹק and חֻקָּה differ somewhat in shade of meaning and frequency in various writings: e.g. חֹק oftener in Job Psalms Proverbs (חֻקָּה not at all Proverbs, once Job), and in Chronicles (חֻקָּה only 2 Chronicles 7:19); חֻקָּה often in Kings, rarely in Hexateuch except in P (H); in prophets, חֹק occurs Amos 2:4; Isaiah 5:14; Isaiah 24:5; Micah 7:11 Jeremiah + 3 times, Ezekiel + 6 times, חֻקָּה only Ezekiel, Jeremiah (6 times) and Micah 6:16; חֻקִּים especially in Deuteronomy and Psalm 119, חֻקּוֺת especially in H, Ezekiel and sometimes (8 times) Deuteronomy; חֹק עוֺלָם usually =due, חֻקַּת ע׳ much more often statute, ordinance, etc.]
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H2708

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Strong's Number H2708 matches the Hebrew חֻקָּה (ḥuqqâ),
which occurs 105 times in 101 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Deu 28:15–Eze 46:14)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 -

“But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep and to do all His commandments and His statutes H2708 with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 -

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes H2708 which He commanded you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]when you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes H2708 which are written in this book of the law, [fn]when you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:16 - in that I am commanding you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes H2708 and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:23 -

“For all His [fn]judgments were before me,

And as for His statutes H2708, I did not depart from [fn]them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “And you shall keep the responsibility given by Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes H2708, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may be prosperous in all that you do and wherever you turn,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 -

And Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes H2708 of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:12 - Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes H2708 and do My judgments and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you which I spoke to David your father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 -

“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes H2708 which I have given before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:11 - So Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this has happened with you: you have not kept My covenant and My statutes H2708, which I have commanded you, so I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My sight and to keep My statutes H2708 and My judgments, as his father David did.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - ‘Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him [fn]ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who kept My commandments and My statutes H2708;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - ‘Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight to keep My statutes H2708 and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:8 - and walked in the statutes H2708 of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel, and in the statutes of the kings of Israel which they had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes H2708 according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:19 -

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes H2708 [fn]which Israel had made.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 -

To this day they are acting according to the earlier customs: they are not fearing Yahweh; they are not acting according to their statutes H2708 or their judgments or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes H2708 with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people [fn]entered into the covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:19 - and give to my son Solomon a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the [fn]temple, for which I have made preparation.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:19 -

“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes H2708 and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:33 -

“Do you know the statutes H2708 of the heavens,

Or fix their rule over the earth?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:22 -

For all His judgments were before me,

And I did not put away His statutes H2708 from me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:31 -

If they profane My statutes H2708

And do not keep My commandments,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:16 -

I shall [fn]delight in Your statutes H2708;

I shall not forget Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 -

‘They do not say in their heart,

“Let us now fear Yahweh our God,

Who gives rain in its season,

Both the [fn]early rain and the [fn]late rain,

Who keeps for us

The appointed H2708 weeks of the harvest.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the statutes H2708 of the peoples are vanity

Because it is wood cut from the forest,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 -

Thus says Yahweh,

Who gives the sun for light by day

And the statutes H2708 for the moon and the stars for light by night,

Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;

Yahweh of hosts is His name:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:25 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the statutes H2708 for heaven and earth I have not established,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:10 - “But they have not become [fn]contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes H2708, which I have put before you and before your fathers.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - “Because you have burned incense and have sinned against Yahweh and not listened to the voice of Yahweh or walked in His law, His statutes H2708, or His testimonies, therefore this evil has befallen you, as it has this day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘But she has rebelled against My judgments more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes H2708 more than the lands which are all around her; for they have rejected My judgments and have not walked [fn]in My statutes H2708.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations which are all around you and have not walked in My statutes H2708, nor done My judgments, nor done the judgments of the nations which are all around you,’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:20 - that they may walk in My statutes H2708 and keep My judgments and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:9 - if he walks in My statutes H2708 and My judgments and is careful to do the truth—he is righteous and will surely live,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:17 - he turns his hand away from [fn]the afflicted, does not take interest or increase, but does My judgments and walks in My statutes H2708; he will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 -

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity?’ But the son has done justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes H2708 and done them. He shall surely live.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 -

“But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has done and keeps all My statutes H2708 and does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - “I gave them My statutes H2708 and made them know My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:13 - “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes H2708, and they rejected My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to completely destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - because they rejected My judgments, and as for My statutes H2708, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually walked after their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:19 - ‘I am Yahweh your God; walk in My statutes H2708 and keep My judgments and do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:21 - “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes H2708, nor were they careful to do My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; they profaned My sabbaths. So I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to spend My anger against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24 - because they had not done My judgments, but had rejected My statutes H2708 and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were going after the idols of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes H2708 of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:24 -

“And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes H2708 and do them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:11 - “If they feel dishonor for all that they have done, make known to them the [fn]design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes H2708[fn], and all its laws. And write it in their sight so that they may keep its whole [fn]design and all its statutes H2708 and do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:18 -

And He said to me, “Son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘These are the statutes H2708 for the altar on the day it is made, to offer burnt offerings on it and to splash blood on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:5 - Then Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, set your heart on and see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the statutes H2708 of the house of Yahweh and concerning all its laws; and set your heart on the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:24 - “And in a dispute, they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My judgments. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes H2708 in all My appointed times and keep My sabbaths holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - “Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning—a sixth of an ephah as well as a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual statute H2708.

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