{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2710",
  "lemma": "חָקַק",
  "transliteration": "châqaq",
  "definition": "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.",
  "occurrences": 19,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:10",
      "text": "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 21:18",
      "text": "the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 33:21",
      "text": "He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 5:9",
      "text": "My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 5:14",
      "text": "Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 10:1",
      "text": "Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 22:16",
      "text": "‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 30:8",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 33:22",
      "text": "For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 49:16",
      "text": "Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=16"
    }
  ],
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