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Strong's #2708 - חֻקָּה
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- statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed
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1180) qh (ההק HhQ) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: Custom: The pictograph h is a picture of a wall representing a separation. The q is a picture of the sun at the horizon representing the idea of "coming together". Combined these mean "separation and coming together". A custom brings a people separated together.
B) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: Custom: The appointment of a specific time, function or duty. A custom as something that is appointed.
V) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) - Inscribe: To write a decree or custom. KJV (19): (vf: Paal, Hophal, Pual, Participle) lawgiver, governor, decree, grave, portray, law, printed, set, note, appoint - Strongs: H2710 (חָקַק)
Nm) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) - Custom: KJV (2): thought, decree - Strongs: H2711 (חֵקֶק)
H) eqh (ההקה HhQH) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: ?: To write a decree or custom.
V) eqh (ההקה HhQH) - Inscribe: KJV (4): (vf: Hitpael, Pual, Participle) portray, carve, print - Strongs: H2707 (חָקָה)
J) qfh (ההוק HhWQ) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Custom: The appointment of a specific time, function or duty. A custom as something that is appointed.
Nm) qfh (ההוק HhWQ) - Custom: KJV (127): statute, ordinance, decree, due, law, portion, bounds, custom, appointed, commandment - Strongs: H2706 (חֹק)
Nf1) eqfh (ההוקה HhWQH) - Custom: KJV (104): statute, ordinance, custom, appointed, manners, rites - Strongs: H2708 (חֻקָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 natureשׁמים ׳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 22:23 = Psalm 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 וחועדות 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 (ᵐ5ᵑ6 ᵑ9 Talm Co strike out עולם) Ezekiel 46:14.
e. phrases of obedience are׳הלך ב Leviticus 18:3; Leviticus 20:23; Leviticus 26:3 (H), 1 Kings 3:3; 1 Kings 6:12; 2 Kings 17:8,19; Jeremiah 44:10,23; Ezekiel 5:6,7; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 18:9,17; Ezekiel 20:13,16,19,21; Ezekiel 33:15; שׁמר Leviticus 18:4,5,26; Leviticus 19:19,37; Leviticus 20:8,22 (H), Genesis 26:5 (R), Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 11:1; Deuteronomy 28:45; Deuteronomy 30:10,16; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Kings 9:6; 1 Kings 11:11,34,38; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 23:3; Ezekiel 18:19,21; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 43:11; Ezekiel 44:24; עשׂה Leviticus 25:18 (P), Deuteronomy 28:15; 1 Kings 11:33; ׳עשׂה כח 2 Kings 17:34; אֶשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע׳בח Psalm 119:16; phrases of disobedience are ׳מאס ח Ezekiel 20:24 ׳מאס בח Leviticus 26:15 (H); געל Leviticus 26:43 (H); עזב 2 Chronicles 7:19; חלל Psalm 89:32. — [חֹק and חֻקָּה differ somewhat in shade of meaning and frequency in various writings: e.g. חֹק oftener in Job Psalm 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 3t., Ezekiel 6t., חֻקָּה only Ezekiel , Jeremiah (6t.) and Micah 6:16; חֻקִּים especially in Deuteronomy and Psalm 119, חֻקּוֺת especially in H, Ezekiel and sometimes (8t.) Deuteronomy; חֹק עוֺלָם usually = due, ׳חֻקַּת ע much more often statute, ordinance, etc.]
חֻקָּה f. from חֹק, that which is established or defined [“Sing. spoken always of a single law or ordinance; e.g. חֻקַּת הַפֶּסַח “law, ordinance of the passover”]; specially
(a) law, e.g. of heaven, of nature, Job 38:33; Jeremiah 31:35, 33:25 of God, Exodus 27:21, חֻקַּת עוֹלָם “an everlasting law.”
(b) practice, custom, e.g. of the Gentiles, i.e. idolatry, 2 Ki. 17:8 Leviticus 20:23, right, privilege, Exodus 29:9 [such a privilege being God’s ordinance].
