H2710 חָקַק
châqaq — properly, to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times)…
KJV: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
Occurs 19 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָקַק] vb. cut in, inscribe, decree
- Qal
- 1 cut in
- 2 cut in or on, upon, engrave, inscribe
- 3 trace, mark out
- 4 of a law, engrave, inscribe
- Po‛el inscribe (as a law), enact (poet.)
- a prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander
- b commander’s staff
- Pu. that which is decreed
- Hoph. inscribed
Where it occurs
- Genesis 49:10 — The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs…
- Numbers 21:18 — the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the…
- Deuteronomy 33:21 — He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the…
- Judges 5:9 — My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!
- Judges 5:14 — Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of…
- Isaiah 10:1 — Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
- Isaiah 22:16 — ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high…
- Isaiah 30:8 — Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and…
- Isaiah 33:22 — For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.
- Isaiah 49:16 — Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.