# H2710 חָקַק

חָקַק (châqaq), Strong’s H2710: 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…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=9) — My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD!
- [Judges 5:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=1) — Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
- [Isaiah 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/33?v=22) — For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.
- [Isaiah 49:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=16) — Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.