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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 shall come about, if you do not [fn]obey the LORD your God, to be careful to [fn]follow all His commandments and His statutes H2708 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 upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not [fn]obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes H2708 which He commanded you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]if you [fn]obey the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes H2708 which are written in this Book of the Law, [fn]if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:16 - in that I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes H2708, and His judgments, so that you may live and become numerous, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:23 -

“For all His ordinances were before me,

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

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “Do your duty to the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to [fn]keep His statutes H2708, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 -

Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes H2708 of his father David, except that he was sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:12 - As for this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes H2708 and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will fulfill 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 placed before you, but you go and serve other gods and worship them,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:11 - So the LORD said to Solomon, “Since [fn]you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes H2708, which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you, and will give it to your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have abandoned 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, doing what is right in My sight and keeping My statutes H2708 and My ordinances, 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 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 shall be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by keeping 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 - They also [fn]followed the [fn]customs H2708 of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had [fn]introduced.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah [fn]through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes H2708 in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you [fn]through My servants the prophets.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:19 -

Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God either, but they [fn]followed the [fn]customs H2708 [fn]which Israel had [fn]introduced.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 -

To this day they act in accordance with the earlier customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they [fn]follow their statutes H2708, their ordinances, the Law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, His provisions, and His statutes H2708 with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out 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 my son Solomon a perfect 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 provision.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:19 -

“But if you turn away and abandon 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 ordinances H2708 of the heavens,

Or do you establish 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 [fn]violate My statutes H2708

And do not keep My commandments,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:16 -

I shall [fn]delight in Your statutes H2708;

I will not forget Your word.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 -

‘They do not say in their heart,

“Let us now fear the LORD our God,

Who gives rain in its season,

Both the autumn rain and the spring rain,

Who keeps for us

The appointed H2708 weeks of the harvest.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the customs H2708 of the peoples are futile;

For it is wood cut from the forest,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 -

This is what the LORD says,

He who gives the sun for light by day

And the [fn]fixed H2708 order H2708 of the moon and the stars for light by night,

Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar

The LORD of armies is His name:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:25 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘If My covenant for day and night does not continue, and I have not established the [fn]fixed H2708 patterns H2708 of heaven and earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:10 - Yet 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 placed before you and before your fathers.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:23 - “Since you have burned [fn]sacrifices and have sinned against the LORD and not obeyed the voice of the LORD nor walked in His Law, His statutes H2708, or His testimonies, therefore this disaster has happened to you, as it has this day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes H2708 more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked [fn]in My statutes H2708.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes H2708, nor executed My ordinances, nor acted in accordance with the ordinances of the nations around you,’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:20 - so that they may walk in My statutes H2708, and keep My ordinances 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 keeps My ordinances so as to deal faithfully—he is righteous and will certainly live,” declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:17 - he keeps his hand from [fn]the poor, does not take any kind of interest on loans, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes H2708; he will not die for his father’s guilt, he will certainly live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 -

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes H2708 and done them, he shall certainly live.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 -

“But if the wicked person turns from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all My statutes H2708 and practices justice and righteousness, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:11 - “I gave them My statutes H2708 and informed them of My ordinances, which, if [fn]a person [fn]follows them, then 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 ordinances, which, if [fn]a person [fn]follows them, then he will live by them; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I [fn]resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes H2708, they did not walk in them; they also profaned My Sabbaths, because their heart continually followed their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:19 - ‘I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes H2708 and keep My ordinances and [fn]follow 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 [fn]follow My ordinances which, if [fn]a person [fn]follows them, then he will live by them; they profaned My Sabbaths. So I [fn]resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to [fn]use up My anger against them in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24 - because they had not [fn]complied with My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes H2708 and had profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were [fn]on the idols of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if a wicked person returns a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes H2708 [fn]which ensure life without committing injustice, he shall certainly 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 ordinances, and keep My statutes H2708 and [fn]follow them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:11 - “And if they are ashamed of everything that they have done, make known to them the plan of the house, its layout, its exits, its entrances, all its plans, all its [fn]statutes H2708, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its entire plan and all its statutes H2708 and execute them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:18 -

And He said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: ‘These are the statutes H2708 for the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:5 - And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, [fn]pay attention, see with your eyes and hear with your ears everything that I say to you concerning all the statutes H2708 of the house of the LORD and all its laws; and [fn]pay attention to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:24 - “In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes H2708 in all My appointed feasts, and sanctify My Sabbaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - “You shall also provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by [fn]a permanent ordinance H2708.

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