חקק חק to layout, to outline

translations

• layout/to layout
• outline/to outline
• boundaries OR bounds / to set an enumerate or demarcate bounds or boundaries
• measure OR portion / measure (out) OR portion out
• limit Or limitation / to set a limit or limitation (up to this point) [describing the terminus of you freedom of movement)
• a trace-ing (out) / to trace (out)
• an allotment / to allot
• a ration/ rations

passages

Ezekiel 4:1 LEB “Now, son of man, take for yourself a brick, and you must put it before you, and you must portray (inscribe an outline or layout) on it a city, Jerusalem. HB2 4:1 וְאַתָּה בֶן־אָדָם קַח־לְךָ לְבֵנָה וְנָתַתָּה אוֹתָהּ לְפָנֶיךָ וְחַקּוֹתָ עָלֶיהָ עִיר אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִָם:

Job 14:5 LEB If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries (you have fixed in place demarcated boundaries), and he cannot cross them. HB2 14:5 אִם חֲרוּצִים יָמָיו Eמִסְפַּר־חֳדָשָׁיו אִתָּךְ חקו חֻקָּיו עָשִׂיתָ וְלֹא יַעֲבוֹר:

Job 26:10

LEB He has described a circle on the face of the water between light and darkness. Job 26:10 YLT A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness. HB2 26:10 חֹק־חָג עַל־פְּנֵי־מָיִם עַד־תַּכְלִית אוֹר עִם־חֹשֶׁךְ:

Genesis 47:22

LEB Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for there was an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they lived ATE on the allotment/ rations that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land.

HB2 47:22 רַק אַדְמַת הַכֹּהֲנִים לֹא קָנָה כִּי חֹק לַכֹּהֲנִים מֵאֵת פַּרְעֹה וְאָכְלוּ אֶת־חֻקָּם אֲשֶׁר נָתַן לָהֶם פַּרְעֹה עַל־כֵּן לֹא מָכְרוּ אֶת־אַדְמָתָם:

notes

• very geographical in nature
• Lay of the Land
• Note from the NET