# H2706 חֹק

חֹק (chôq), Strong’s H2706: an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage) KJV: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure……

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*chôq* — an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)

KJV: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure…

Derived from [חָקַק châqaq](https://besorah.bible/word/H2710) (to hack, i.e. engrave)

Occurs 127 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 47:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=22) — Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which…
- [Genesis 47:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=26) — Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of…
- [Exodus 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=14) — The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why…
- [Exodus 12:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=24) — You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
- [Exodus 15:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=25) — 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…
- [Exodus 15:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=26) — 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…
- [Exodus 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=16) — 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…
- [Exodus 18:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=20) — You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that…
- [Exodus 29:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=28) — It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It…
- [Exodus 30:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=21) — So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him…