chok · statute, allotted portion

What it means

chok (חֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “statute, allotted portion”.

What is fixed: an allotted portion, a rule, a statute; a limit.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
2. The part or measure due to someone, like a ration or a quota.
3. The line that marks how far something reaches.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

What is fixed: an allotted ration, a limit, a rule, a statute. BDB: an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage). It comes from חָקַק, “to engrave, decree”; of the same family is חֻקָּה, “statute” (H2708).

• The allotment of the priests of Egypt Genesis 47:22
• “As a statute … forever”; “it became a statute” Exodus 12:24Judges 11:39
• The statutes of YHWH Leviticus 10:11Psalms 119:8
• The limit set for the sea Job 38:10Jeremiah 5:22Proverbs 8:29
• “The bread of my portion” Proverbs 30:8

How we translate it

“Statutes” 77 times, “statute” 25, “portion” 9, “limit” 4, “due” 3, “allotment” 2, “decree” 2… This edition sets חֹק / חֻקָּה = “statute” and admits “portion”; “limit” or “decree” when it is the boundary set for the sea, and “due” or “portion” when it is the share that belongs to the priests (Numbers 18:8; Leviticus 10:13).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• statutes ×77
• statute ×25
• portion ×9
• limit ×4
• due ×3
• allotment ×2
• decree ×2
• boundary ×1
• limits ×1
• quota ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×21
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×4
• Job×7
• Psalms×30
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×6
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 47:22

  Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh, and they ate their allotment that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute, to this day, concerning the land of Egypt: to Pharaoh belongs the fifth. Only the land of the priests by itself did not become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 5:14

  And the supervisors of the sons of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, being told, “Why have you not completed your quota of making bricks as before, both yesterday and today?”

• Exodus 12:24

  You shall keep this thing as a statute for you and for your sons forever.

• Exodus 15:25

  He cried out to YHWH, and YHWH showed him a tree; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them.

• Exodus 15:26

  He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of YHWH your Elohim, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not put on you any of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians; for I am YHWH, your healer.”

• Exodus 18:16

  When they have a matter, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of Elohim and his instructions.”

• Exodus 18:20

  Teach them the statutes and the instructions, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

• Exodus 29:28

  It shall be for Aaron and for his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel, for it is a contribution; and it shall be a contribution from the sons of Israel from their sacrifices of peace, their contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:21

  they shall wash their hands and their feet so that they will not die; and it shall be for them a statute forever, for him and for his offspring throughout their generations.”

• Leviticus 6:18

  Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it, as a statute forever throughout your generations, from the fire offerings of YHWH. Whatever touches them will become holy.”

• Leviticus 6:22

  The anointed priest in his place from among his sons shall prepare it; it is a statute forever: to YHWH it shall be wholly offered up in smoke.

• Leviticus 7:34

  For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of peace, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 10:11

  and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes that YHWH has spoken to them through Moses.”

• Leviticus 10:13

  You shall eat it in a holy place, for it is your portion and the portion of your sons from the fire offerings of YHWH; for so I have been commanded.

• Leviticus 10:14

  The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your portion and the portion of your sons from the sacrifices of peace of the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 10:15

  The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring, together with the fire offerings of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before YHWH; and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, as a statute forever, as YHWH has commanded.”

• Leviticus 24:9

  And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, for it is most holy for him from the fire offerings of YHWH, a portion forever.”

• Leviticus 26:46

  These are the statutes and the rules and the instructions that YHWH made between himself and the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai through Moses.

• Numbers 18:8

  And YHWH spoke to Aaron, “And I, look, I have given you the charge of my contributions, of all the holy things of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

• Numbers 18:11

  And this is yours: the contribution of their gift, of all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

• Numbers 18:19

  All the contributions of the holy things that the sons of Israel set apart for YHWH I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before YHWH for you and for your offspring with you.”

• Numbers 30:16

  These are the statutes that YHWH commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, in her youth, in the house of her father.

• Deuteronomy 4:1

  And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the rules that I am teaching you to carry out, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 4:5

  See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as YHWH my Elohim commanded me, so that you may do so in the midst of the land into which you are going to take possession of it.

• Deuteronomy 4:6

  Keep them and carry them out, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

• Deuteronomy 4:8

  And what great nation is there that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this instruction that I am setting before you today?

• Deuteronomy 4:14

  And YHWH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, for you to carry them out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it.

• Deuteronomy 4:40

  Keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you all the days.

• Deuteronomy 4:45

  These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules that Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

• Deuteronomy 5:1

  Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the rules that I am speaking in your hearing today; learn them and be careful to carry them out.

• Deuteronomy 5:31

  But you, stand here with me, and I will speak to you the whole commandment, the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, so that they may carry them out in the land that I am giving them to take possession of it.”

• Deuteronomy 6:1

  This is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that YHWH your Elohim commanded me to teach you, to carry out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it,

• Deuteronomy 6:17

  You shall carefully keep the commandments of YHWH your Elohim, and his testimonies and his statutes that he has commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 6:20

  When your son asks you tomorrow, saying, “What are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules that YHWH our Elohim has commanded you?”

• Deuteronomy 6:24

  And YHWH commanded us to carry out all these statutes, to fear YHWH our Elohim, for our good all the days, to keep us alive, as it is this day.

• Deuteronomy 7:11

  So keep the commandment, the statutes, and the rules that I am commanding you today, to carry them out.

• Deuteronomy 11:32

  Be careful to carry out all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.

• Deuteronomy 12:1

  These are the statutes and the rules that you shall be careful to carry out in the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the ground.

• Deuteronomy 16:12

  And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and carry out these statutes.

And 86 more times.