חֻקָּה
chuqqâh · khook-kaw'
{an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H2706 (חֹק), and meaning substantially the same
{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, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to reveal, behold
To separate and protect of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֻקָּה 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
104 occurrences · 104 OT · 0 NT · 58 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- my statutes13 · 16%
- it shall be a statute8 · 10%
- and his statutes8 · 10%
- in my statutes7 · 9%
- and my statutes7 · 9%
- statute4 · 5%
- all my statutes4 · 5%
- in the statutes4 · 5%
- this is the ordinance3 · 4%
- ordinance3 · 4%
- not in my statutes3 · 4%
- by an ordinance2 · 2%
- his statutes2 · 2%
- thereof, and all the ordinances2 · 2%
- this ordinance1 · 1%
- them, by a statute1 · 1%
- and this shall be a statute1 · 1%
- by a statute1 · 1%
- this shall be a statute1 · 1%
- in their ordinances1 · 1%
- mine ordinances1 · 1%
- customs1 · 1%
- in the manners1 · 1%
- therein: it shall be a statute1 · 1%
- according to all the rites1 · 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.