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Strong's H2708 חֻקָּה (chuqqah)

Chuqqah means “appointed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2708 — katacheo (“pour”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2708
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 100
Books 14

Strong's H2708 Quick Answer

Strong's H2708 חוּקָּה (chuqqah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chuqqah (khook-kaw') n-f. 1. appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute [feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same] It has 100 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include statute, ordinance, appointed, customs, and manners. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chuqqah (khook-kaw') n-f. 1. appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute [feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same]
Usage
100 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
statute, ordinance, appointed, customs, and manners

Meaning and Definition

chuqqah (khook-kaw') n-f. 1. appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute [feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same] Root(s): H2706

Original Word
חוּקָּה
Transliteration
chuqqah
Derivation
First root strongs: 2706
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2708. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2708 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chuqqah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

statute Exodus 27:21 19× ordinance Exodus 12:14 appointed Numbers 9:3 customs Leviticus 18:30 manner Leviticus 23:31 manners Leviticus 20:23 statutes Genesis 26:5

How Strong's H2708 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 100 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2708 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2708 in the Old Testament

100 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 26:5 KJV

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Exodus 12:14 KJV

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:17 KJV

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Usage Excerpts

First 100 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2708.

Genesis 26:5 Old Testament, KJV
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Exodus 12:14 Old Testament, KJV
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:17 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus 12:43 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exodus 13:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Exodus 27:21 Old Testament, KJV
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 28:43 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Exodus 29:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:36 Old Testament, KJV
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
Leviticus 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Leviticus 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 16:31 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus 16:34 Old Testament, KJV
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Leviticus 18:3 Old Testament, KJV
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:5 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 18:30 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:19 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus 19:37 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
Leviticus 20:22 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
Leviticus 20:23 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:31 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:41 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
Leviticus 25:18 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Leviticus 26:15 Old Testament, KJV
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Leviticus 26:43 Old Testament, KJV
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Numbers 9:3 Old Testament, KJV
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
Numbers 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Numbers 9:14 Old Testament, KJV
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
Numbers 15:15 Old Testament, KJV
One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers 18:23 Old Testament, KJV
But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Numbers 19:2 Old Testament, KJV
This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
Numbers 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Numbers 19:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
Numbers 27:11 Old Testament, KJV
And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
Numbers 35:29 Old Testament, KJV
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Deuteronomy 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 10:13 Old Testament, KJV
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deuteronomy 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Deuteronomy 28:45 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
Deuteronomy 30:10 Old Testament, KJV
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
2 Samuel 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
1 Kings 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
1 Kings 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
1 Kings 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
1 Kings 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
1 Kings 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
1 Kings 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
1 Kings 11:34 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
1 Kings 11:38 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
2 Kings 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
2 Kings 17:13 Old Testament, KJV
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kings 17:19 Old Testament, KJV
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2 Kings 17:34 Old Testament, KJV
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2 Kings 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Chronicles 7:19 Old Testament, KJV
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Job 38:33 Old Testament, KJV
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Psalms 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 89:31 Old Testament, KJV
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
Psalms 119:16 Old Testament, KJV
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Jeremiah 5:24 Old Testament, KJV
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah 10:3 Old Testament, KJV
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 31:35 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
Jeremiah 33:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jeremiah 44:10 Old Testament, KJV
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:23 Old Testament, KJV
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Ezekiel 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 18:9 Old Testament, KJV
Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:19 Old Testament, KJV
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:21 Old Testament, KJV
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Ezekiel 20:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:19 Old Testament, KJV
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel 20:21 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:24 Old Testament, KJV
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ezekiel 33:15 Old Testament, KJV
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezekiel 37:24 Old Testament, KJV
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Ezekiel 43:11 Old Testament, KJV
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
Ezekiel 43:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Ezekiel 44:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 44:24 Old Testament, KJV
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 46:14 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.
Micah 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2708, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 26 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 12 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 20 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2708 FAQ

What does chuqqah (חֻקָּה) mean?

Chuqqah (Strong's H2708) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "appointed". chuqqah (khook-kaw') n-f. 1. appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute [feminine of H2706, and meaning substantially the same]

How many times is chuqqah (חֻקָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 100 linked usages for Strong's H2708 across 14 books.

Where can I study chuqqah (חֻקָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2708 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chuqqah (חֻקָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as statute, ordinance, appointed, customs, manners, and manner. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.