# חֻקָּה (chuqah)

Israeli respelling: chu-qah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2708. 101 Old Testament occurrences.

{an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}

King James renderings: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chuqah-h2708

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/5) — Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- [Exodus 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/14) — And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a fea…
- [Exodus 12:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/17) — And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore…
- [Exodus 12:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/43) — And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- [Exodus 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/10) — Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
- [Exodus 27:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/21) — In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to mo…
- [Exodus 28:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/43) — And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the…
- [Exodus 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/29/9) — And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpe…
- [Leviticus 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/3/17) — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- [Leviticus 7:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/36) — Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout the…
- [Leviticus 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/10/9) — Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall…
- [Leviticus 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/29) — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and d…
- [Leviticus 16:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/31) — It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
- [Leviticus 16:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/34) — And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he d…
- [Leviticus 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/7) — And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them…
- [Leviticus 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/3) — After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you,…
- [Leviticus 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/4) — Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
- [Leviticus 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/5) — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
- [Leviticus 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/26) — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor a…
- [Leviticus 18:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/30) — Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that y…
- [Leviticus 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/19) — Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neithe…
- [Leviticus 19:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/37) — Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
- [Leviticus 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/8) — And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
- [Leviticus 20:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/22) — Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you n…
- [Leviticus 20:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/23) — And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhor…
- [Leviticus 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/14) — And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it…
- [Leviticus 23:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/21) — And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a…
- [Leviticus 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/31) — Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- [Leviticus 23:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/41) — And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate i…
- [Leviticus 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/24/3) — Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the…
- [Leviticus 25:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/18) — Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
- [Leviticus 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/3) — If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- [Leviticus 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/15) — And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my c…
- [Leviticus 26:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/43) — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the puni…
- [Numbers 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/3) — In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to…
- [Numbers 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/12) — They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
- [Numbers 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/14) — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and accord…
- [Numbers 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/8) — And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your genera…
- [Numbers 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/15) — One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your…
- [Numbers 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/23) — But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for e…
- [Numbers 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/2) — This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heife…
- [Numbers 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/10) — And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of I…
- [Numbers 19:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/21) — And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth…
- [Numbers 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/27/11) — And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall pos…
- [Numbers 31:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/21) — And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
- [Numbers 35:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/29) — So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- [Deuteronomy 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/2) — That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy s…
- [Deuteronomy 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/11) — Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee th…
- [Deuteronomy 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/13) — To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
- [Deuteronomy 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/1) — Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- [Deuteronomy 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/15) — But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statu…
- [Deuteronomy 28:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/45) — Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst…
- [Deuteronomy 30:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/10) — If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the l…
- [Deuteronomy 30:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/16) — In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgme…
- [2 Samuel 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/23) — For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
- [1 Kings 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/3) — And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testim…
- [1 Kings 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/3) — And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
- [1 Kings 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/12) — Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments…
- [1 Kings 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/6) — But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set befo…
- [1 Kings 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/11) — Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have c…
- [1 Kings 11:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/33) — Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom…
- [1 Kings 11:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/34) — Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake,…
- [1 Kings 11:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/38) — And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my…
- [2 Kings 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/8) — And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which the…
- [2 Kings 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/13) — Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, a…
- [2 Kings 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/19) — Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- [2 Kings 17:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/34) — Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or…
- [2 Kings 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/3) — And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimoni…
- [1 Chronicles 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/19) — And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and…
- [2 Chronicles 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/19) — But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worsh…
- [Job 38:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/33) — Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
- [Psalms 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/22) — For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
- [Psalms 89:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/31) — If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
- [Psalms 119:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/16) — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- [Jeremiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/24) — Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he rese…
- [Jeremiah 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/3) — For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
- [Jeremiah 31:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/35) — Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which d…
- [Jeremiah 33:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/25) — Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
- [Jeremiah 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/10) — They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and befo…
- [Jeremiah 44:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/23) — Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his l…
- [Ezekiel 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/6) — And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her:…
- [Ezekiel 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/7) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes…
- [Ezekiel 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/20) — That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
- [Ezekiel 18:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/9) — Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Ezekiel 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/17) — That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statut…
- [Ezekiel 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/19) — Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all…
- [Ezekiel 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/21) — But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he s…
- [Ezekiel 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/11) — And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
- [Ezekiel 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/13) — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a m…
- [Ezekiel 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/16) — Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
- [Ezekiel 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/19) — I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
- [Ezekiel 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/21) — Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do,…
- [Ezekiel 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/24) — Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fat…
- [Ezekiel 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/15) — If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely…
- [Ezekiel 37:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/24) — And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my st…
- [Ezekiel 43:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/11) — And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, an…
- [Ezekiel 43:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/18) — And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offe…
- [Ezekiel 44:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/5) — And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning…
- [Ezekiel 44:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/24) — And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my stat…
- [Ezekiel 46:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/46/14) — And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper wit…
- [Micah 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/16) — For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolat…