Hebrew verb · H2707
חָקָה
chaqahkhaw-kaw'
to engrave
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châqâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2707is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2707
to carve; by implication, to delineate; also to entrench
The King James renders it: carved work, portrayed, set a print.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chaqah is rendered "to engrave". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 6:35He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.
1 Kings 6:35הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a carved1
- carved1
- the carved1
- you make a mark1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃1
- מְחֻקֶּ֥ה1
- מְחֻקֶּ֣ה1
- תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular2HVPsmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HTd/VPsmsa
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVti2ms
1 Kings
one use
He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.
- הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃hamechukehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the carved
Job
one use
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃titchakehverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you make a mark
Ezekiel
two uses
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- מְחֻקֶּ֥הmechukehverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: carved
But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,
- מְחֻקֶּ֣הmechukehverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: a carved
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.