חֹק
chôq · khoke
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2710 (חָקַק);
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
- an enactment
- hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, [idiom] necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To separate and protect of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֹק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
127 occurrences · 127 OT · 0 NT · 80 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thy statutes7 · 10%
- me thy statutes7 · 10%
- and the statutes6 · 8%
- and his statutes5 · 7%
- the statutes4 · 5%
- my statutes4 · 5%
- his statutes4 · 5%
- statutes4 · 5%
- with thee, by a statute3 · 4%
- in thy statutes3 · 4%
- these are the statutes3 · 4%
- due2 · 3%
- all the statutes2 · 3%
- you statutes2 · 3%
- all these statutes2 · 3%
- by a statute2 · 3%
- in my statutes2 · 3%
- a decree2 · 3%
- for a law2 · 3%
- these statutes2 · 3%
- for an ordinance1 · 1%
- your task1 · 1%
- it a law1 · 1%
- their portion1 · 1%
- had a portion1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.