Definition

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

Etymology

from H2710 (חָקַק);

Where the KJV renders it

• appointed
• bound
• commandment
• convenient
• custom
• decree(-d)
• due
• law
• measure
• necessary
• ordinance(-nary)
• portion
• set time
• statute
• task

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.