[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/statute.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/) / statute

[← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/S/)

# statute

«statute» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **law, rule** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

law, rule

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A law or rule that is written down and fixed, here one given by God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/statute/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a statute is a formal law passed by parliament. In the Torah it is a law or decree from God, not one voted in by people.

### examples

- This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. (Torah LEV.17.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/statute/#x1)
- There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them; (Torah EXO.15.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/statute/#x2)
- And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.' (Torah NUM.27.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/statute/#x3)

### primary record

statute

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 30 (Torah 30, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.4 (Torah alone 70.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.738/)
- [There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.443/)
- [It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.49/)
- [It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.490/)
- [This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.501/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «statute» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/statute/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.