Strong H2706H2706Iחֹק
statute: allotment
One of the 3 senses of Strong H2706
- Transliteration
- chôq
- Pronunciation
- khoke
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
: allotment/boundary
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
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
General definition
From H2710; 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.
In the Bible
Strong H2706I appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- decree4
- bound2
- measure1
First verses
- Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- Job 26:10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- Job 38:10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- Proverbs 8:29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
- Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
- Micah 7:11In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.