{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2706",
  "lemma": "חֹק",
  "transliteration": "chôq",
  "definition": "an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)",
  "kjv": "appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure…",
  "occurrences": 127,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H2710",
      "lemma": "חָקַק",
      "transliteration": "châqaq",
      "meaning": "to hack, i.e. engrave",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2710"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "חֹק 127 n.m. something prescribed, a statute or due",
    "1. prescribed task",
    "2. prescribed-portion or allowance of food",
    "3. action prescribed for oneself, resolve",
    "4. prescribed due of the priest from offerings",
    "5. prescribed limit, boundary",
    "6. enactment, decree, ordinance of either God or man",
    "7. pl. חֻקִּים enactments, statutes of a law"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 47:22",
      "text": "Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 47:26",
      "text": "Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 5:14",
      "text": "The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:24",
      "text": "You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:25",
      "text": "Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:26",
      "text": "He said, “If you will diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 18:16",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 18:20",
      "text": "You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 29:28",
      "text": "It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:21",
      "text": "So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=21"
    }
  ],
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