chuka · statute

What it means

chuka (חֻקָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “statute”.

A fixed rule, laid down to be kept always.

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 fixed rule, for all time.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Statute: a fixed rule, laid down to be kept always. It is the feminine form of חֹק, “statute” (H2706), and comes from the verb חָקַק, “to engrave, to inscribe”. BDB: something prescribed: an enactment, a custom, a statute.

• “A statute forever” in the laws of feasts and offerings Exodus 12:14Leviticus 16:29Leviticus 3:17
• “My statutes and my rules” Leviticus 18:5Genesis 26:5
• “The statute of the instruction” Numbers 19:2
• “The statutes of heavens and earth” Jeremiah 33:25

How we translate it

“Statutes” 72 times, “statute” 32, “appointed” 1. This edition sets חֹק / חֻקָּה = “statute” for both forms, and מִשְׁפָּטִים beside them = “rules” (“my statutes and my rules”, Leviticus 18:5).

How it is translated

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

• statutes ×72
• statute ×32
• appointed ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×26
• Numbers×14
• Deuteronomy×8
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×8
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×22
• Micah×1

• Genesis 26:5

  because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my instructions.”

• Exodus 12:14

  This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall celebrate it.

• Exodus 12:17

  You shall keep the festival of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought out your armies from the land of Egypt; and you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a statute forever.

• Exodus 12:43

  YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.

• Exodus 13:10

  You shall keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before YHWH. It is a statute forever throughout their generations on the part of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 28:43

  They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they do not bear iniquity and die. It is a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.

• Exodus 29:9

  You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

• Leviticus 3:17

  It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.”

• Leviticus 7:36

  which YHWH commanded to be given to them on the day he anointed them, from the sons of Israel; it is a statute forever throughout their generations.”

• Leviticus 10:9

  “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, so that you do not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations,

• Leviticus 16:29

  And this shall be for you a statute forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work the native or the resident alien who resides among you.

• Leviticus 16:31

  It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

• Leviticus 16:34

  And this shall be for you a statute forever, to make expiation for the sons of Israel for all their sins once in the year.” And Aaron did as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 17:7

  So they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goats after which they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

• Leviticus 18:3

  You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you shall not walk in their statutes.

• Leviticus 18:4

  You shall do my rules and keep my statutes, walking in them. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 18:5

  So you shall keep my statutes and my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live. I am YHWH.

• Leviticus 18:26

  But you shall keep my statutes and my rules, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the resident alien who resides among you

• Leviticus 18:30

  So you shall keep my charge, not to do any of the abominable statutes that were done before you, and you shall not make yourselves unclean by them. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Leviticus 19:19

  You shall keep my statutes. Your beasts you shall not let breed with two kinds; your field you shall not sow with two kinds, and a garment of two kinds, of mixed fabric, shall not come on you.

• Leviticus 19:37

  And you shall keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them. I am YHWH.”

• Leviticus 20:8

  And you shall keep my statutes and do them. I am YHWH, who sanctifies you.

• Leviticus 20:22

  So you shall keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live in it does not vomit you out.

• Leviticus 20:23

  And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I loathed them.

• Leviticus 23:14

  And bread or roasted grain or fresh grain you shall not eat until this very day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 23:21

  And on this very day you shall proclaim: there shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall do no laborious work at all; it is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

• Leviticus 23:31

  You shall do no work at all; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 23:41

  And you shall celebrate it as a feast to YHWH seven days in the year; it is a statute forever throughout your generations; in the seventh month you shall celebrate it.

• Leviticus 24:3

  Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before YHWH continually; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

• Leviticus 25:18

  So you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and do them, and you shall live on the land securely.

• Leviticus 26:3

  If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them,

• Leviticus 26:15

  and if you reject my statutes, and if your soul loathes my rules, so that you do not do all my commandments, and you break my covenant,

• Leviticus 26:43

  But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the payment for their iniquity, because, yes, because they rejected my rules and their soul loathed my statutes.

• Numbers 9:3

  On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and according to all its rules you shall keep it.”

• Numbers 9:12

  They shall not leave any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

• Numbers 9:14

  And if a resident alien resides among you and keeps the Passover to YHWH, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so he shall keep it; you shall have one statute, both for the resident alien and for the native of the land.’”

• Numbers 10:8

  And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be for you a statute forever throughout your generations.

• Numbers 15:15

  As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the resident alien who resides among you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the resident alien be before YHWH.

• Numbers 18:23

  But the Levites themselves shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the sons of Israel they shall not inherit an inheritance.

And 65 more times.