חֹק
choq (H2706G)
statute: decree
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# H2706 (חֹק) - Choq: Statute and Decree The Hebrew word *choq* denotes an established rule or ordinance—specifically a statute or decree. Its fundamental meaning centers on something formally determined and prescribed, whether by divine or human authority. The term appears 100 times throughout the biblical text, indicating it held considerable importance in expressing how rules and requirements were communicated and understood in ancient Hebrew thought. The word's range encompasses both religious and administrative contexts. Biblical authors employed *choq* to describe formal regulations that governed conduct, suggesting the word carried weight as an authoritative pronouncement. Whether referring to divine commandments or civil ordinances, the term consistently represents rules intended to direct behavior and establish order. The high frequency of occurrence across the biblical corpus underscores that statutes and decrees formed a central concern in the text's worldview—they were not peripheral concepts but fundamental to how laws and obligations were conceptualized. The significance of *choq* lies in its function as the linguistic bridge between authority and obligation. By using this term, biblical writers designated certain rules as formally binding rather than merely advisory. This word choice mattered: calling something a *choq* rather than a suggestion or preference elevated it to the status of law. For modern readers, understanding this term illuminates how ancient Hebrew culture understood the nature of rules themselves—as formal, deliberate pronouncements intended to structure
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Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”
The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh.
You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel
It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.
He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.
and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
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