Strong's Definition
from 2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV Usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance(- nary), portion, set time, statute, task
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חֹק (choq) — statute: decree. : decree 1) statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due 1a) prescribed task 1b) prescribed portion 1c) action prescribed (for oneself), resolve 1d) prescribed due 1e) prescribed limit, boundary 1f) enactment, decree, ordinance 1f1) specific decree 1f2) law in general 1g) enactments, statutes 1g1) conditions 1g2) enactments 1g3) decrees 1g4) civil enactments prescribed by God
חֹק (choq) — statute: portion. : portion 1) statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due 1a) prescribed task 1b) prescribed portion 1c) action prescribed (for oneself), resolve 1d) prescribed due 1e) prescribed limit, boundary 1f) enactment, decree, ordinance 1f1) specific decree 1f2) law in general 1g) enactments, statutes 1g1) conditions 1g2) enactments 1g3) decrees 1g4) civil enactments prescribed by God
חֹק (choq) — statute: allotment. : allotment/boundary 1) statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due 1a) prescribed task 1b) prescribed portion 1c) action prescribed (for oneself), resolve 1d) prescribed due 1e) prescribed limit, boundary 1f) enactment, decree, ordinance 1f1) specific decree 1f2) law in general 1g) enactments, statutes 1g1) conditions 1g2) enactments 1g3) decrees 1g4) civil enactments prescribed by God
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · חקק
Act
customs, practices = patterns of behavior that a community expects its members to follow
Laws
law, decree = a pattern of behavior required by somebody in authority
GEN 47:26 · EXO 12:24 · EXO 15:25 · EXO 15:26 · EXO 18:16 · EXO 18:20 · EXO 30:21 · LEV 10:11 · LEV 26:46 · NUM 30:17 · DEU 4:1 · DEU 4:5 · DEU 4:6 · DEU 4:8 · DEU 4:14 · DEU 4:40 · DEU 4:45 · DEU 5:1 · DEU 5:31 · DEU 6:1 · DEU 6:17 · DEU 6:20 · DEU 6:24 · DEU 7:11 · DEU 11:32 · DEU 12:1 · DEU 16:12 · DEU 17:19 · DEU 26:16 · DEU 26:17 · DEU 27:10 · JOS 24:25 · 1SA 30:25 · 1KI 3:14 · 1KI 8:58 · 1KI 8:61 · 1KI 9:4 · 2KI 17:15 · 2KI 17:37 · 1CH 16:17 · 1CH 22:13 · 1CH 29:19 · 2CH 7:17 · 2CH 19:10 · 2CH 33:8 · 2CH 34:31 · EZR 7:10 · EZR 7:11 · NEH 1:7 · NEH 9:13 · NEH 9:14 · NEH 10:30 · JOB 23:12 · JOB 23:12 · JOB 28:26 · PSA 2:7 · PSA 50:16 · PSA 81:5 · PSA 94:20 · PSA 99:7 · PSA 105:10 · PSA 105:45 · PSA 119:5 · PSA 119:8 · PSA 119:12 · PSA 119:23 · PSA 119:26 · PSA 119:33 · PSA 119:48 · PSA 119:54 · PSA 119:64 · PSA 119:68 · PSA 119:71 · PSA 119:80 · PSA 119:83 · PSA 119:112 · PSA 119:117 · PSA 119:118 · PSA 119:124 · PSA 119:135 · PSA 119:145 · PSA 119:155 · PSA 119:171 · PSA 147:19 · ISA 10:1 · ISA 24:5 · JER 31:36 · JER 32:11 · EZK 11:12 · EZK 20:18 · EZK 20:25 · EZK 36:27 · AMO 2:4 · ZEC 1:6 · MAL 3:7 · MAL 3:22
Quantity
allowance, allotment, share, portion = a certain quantity of food items, that someone in authority has ordered to be given to individuals or groups of people on a regular basis
GEN 47:22 · GEN 47:22 · EXO 29:28 · LEV 6:11 · LEV 6:15 · LEV 7:34 · LEV 10:13 · LEV 10:13 · LEV 10:14 · LEV 10:14 · LEV 10:15 · LEV 24:9 · NUM 18:8 · NUM 18:11 · NUM 18:19 · EZK 45:14
Quantity
daily allotment = a certain quantity of food that an individual needs every day in order to survive
noun m
Think
Collocation: חִקְקֵי־לֵב
searching of heart, deliberation literally, possibly: inquiries of heart; hence: = action by which humans reflect on a certain matter in order to make a well founded decision
1 JOB 23:12 MT HOTTP-Ca [c] or [f] NIV [f] NJPS [f] | LXX HOTTP-Cb RSV NJB NRSV REB GNT חֵיק "(in my) heart" 2 ISA 10:1 MT חִקְקֵי = חֶקֶק 3 EZK 16:27 RSV "allotted portion" NJPS "maintenance" NJB "food" NRSV "rations" = [e] | NIV REB CEV "territory" = [f] 4 ZEP 2:2 MT HOTTP-B NIV "appointed time" NJPS ESV "decree" CEV "(before) it's too late" | RSV NJB NRSV REB GNT "(before) you are driven away = לֹא תִּדְחְקוּ 5 JDG 5:15 MT חִקְקֵי = חֵקֶק LXX "ἐξικνούμενοι"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
חֹק 127 n.m. something prescribed, a statute or due prescribed task
prescribed-portion or allowance of food
action prescribed for oneself, resolve
prescribed due of the priest from offerings
prescribed limit, boundary
enactment, decree, ordinance of either God or man
pl. חֻקִּים enactments, statutes of a law
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